Canadian Journal of Regional Science articles from March 22 1997

Canadian Journal of Regional Science archives from March 22 1997

Social science and UNESCO's MOST programme.
March 22, 1997... Nadia Auriat UNESCO Headquarters Sector for Social and Human Sciences France, Paris 75015 The United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is the branch of the United Nation's family mandated to...

Making policy more responsive to research: a view from the United States.
March 22, 1997... Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Deborah Ho International Migration Policy Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington D.C. 20036 In an ideal environment, policy should proceed from and be adjusted regularly on...

International Metropolis Project.
March 22, 1997... Howard Duncan International Project Director Metropolis Project (CIC) Ottawa, ON K1A 1L1 The International Metropolis Project is a set of co-ordinated activities carried out by a group of countries and international...

Administrations municipales et recherche scientifique: le cas des affaires interculturelles a la Ville de Montreal.
March 22, 1997... Marie-Claire Dumas Directrice des affaires interculturelles Ville de Montreal Montreal, QC H2Y 1C6 L'annee 1998 marque les dix ans d'interventions en affaires interculturelles a la Ville de Montreal. En effet, c'est en 1988,...

Canada's policy research capacity: observations from the public policy forum.
March 22, 1997... Eva Kmiecic Vice President Public Policy Forum Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4 In November of 1996, the Public Policy Forum wrote a letter to the federal Minister of Finance, The Honourable Paul Martin, about the need for "greater...

Collaboration fructueuse.
March 22, 1997... Madeleine Gagne Sous ministre a l'Immigration et a l'Etablissement Ministere des Relations avec les citoyens et de l'Immigration Montreal, QC H2Y 2E9 Au tournant des annees 80, l'elaboration de l'Enonce gouvernemental de...

Montreal, laboratoire de l'experience du cosmopolitisme urbain.
March 22, 1997... Pierre Bourque Maire, Ville de Montreal Montreal, QC H2Y 1C6 Ville unique Metropole francophone en Amerique du Nord, Montreal est une des rares villes du monde qui peut se targuer d'avoir une population tres largement...

NRC a model for bottom-up approach to innovation.
March 22, 1997... Dr. Arthur J. Carty President National Research Council of Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6 Innovation is the key to Canada's continuing economic viability. At the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), we have been...

Research and policy decisions.
March 22, 1997... Greg Fyffe Assistant Deputy Minister Policy and Program Development, Citizenship and Immigration Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 1L1 Immigration policy makers deal with questions which are usually variations on one of the...

Self-care strategies for managing respiratory illness in South-East Toronto: life histories of Chinese and Caribbean immigrants.
March 22, 1997... The authors thank the participants who graciously shared their experiences to make this research possible. Support for this study was provided by the Joint Centre of Excellence on Research in Immigration and Settlement-Toronto (CERIS). The...

Etranger et la ville.
March 22, 1997... Une version anterieure de ce texte avait ete preparee pour le Musee de la civilisation du Quebec. Annick Germain Immigration et Metropoles: Centre de recherche interuniversitaire de Montreal sur l'immigration, l'integration et la...

Latin Americans in a Canadian primary school: perspectives of parents, teachers and children on cultural identity and academic achievement.
March 22, 1997... Funding for the project described has been generously provided by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The authors wish to thank the school principal, teachers, and all the families for their participation in the study....

Evaluation de l'impact relatif des facteurs influencant la dynamique de la concentration ethnique dans les ecoles de langue francaise de l'Ile de Montreal.
March 22, 1997... Marie McAndrew Immigration et Metropoles: Centre de recherche interuniversitaire de Montreal sur l'immigration, l'integration et la dynamique urbaine (CRIMIIDU), www.crimiidu.metropolis.globalx.net Montreal, QC H3C 3J7 ...

To stay or not to stay: characteristics associated with newcomers planning to remain in Canada.
March 22, 1997... The study was funded by the Ontario Region Settlement Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada. The opinions expressed in the paper are not necessarily those of the Ontario Region Settlement Directorate. The authors gratefully...

How the proportion of artificial Canadians varied among regions of Canada and ethnic origins between 1991 and 1996.
March 22, 1997... Careful research assistance has been provided by Kwame Boadu, a graduate student in demography at the University of Alberta. Professor K Vaninadha Rao of the Bowling Green State University discussed usefully and positively another paper by this...

Supply and migration of Canadian physicians, 1970-1995: why we should learn to love an immigrant doctor.
March 22, 1997... This paper is part of a larger study of the migration of "highly-qualified personnel" in Canada, funded by the Metropolis Project's Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration. The assistance of Brent Barber...

Self-employment among visible minority immigrants, white immigrants, and native-born persons in secondary and tertiary industries of Canada.
March 22, 1997... Research on this paper was supported in part by a grant from the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration, and in part by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Data used in this paper...

Immigration, diversity and urban citizenship in Toronto.
March 22, 1997... We would like to thank the Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS-Toronto) for funding support for the research on which this paper is based. Stacy Clark, Mark Fitzgerald and Natalie Prince each provided superb...

Settlement patterns of Toronto's Chinese immigrants: convergence or divergence?
March 22, 1997... The authors acknowledge the support of a research grant from the Toronto Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, and the research assistance of Xiao-feng Liu and Chi Shen. The first author also thanks Bob Murdie...

Plight of immigrants: the spatial concentration of poverty in Canada.
March 22, 1997... This study was made possible through a research grant provided by Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration for which the authors are grateful. The authors would also like to thank the valuable comments on the...