Conversations in Intergration
City Dispatches
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Montreal: Play It Fair!
2012-04-25 Play it Fair! has recently launched a new program called Speaking Rights, which engages 13-17 year old youth in exploring human rights issues and identifying strategies to combat discrimination and exclusion while promoting respect for diversity.
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Amsterdam: Integrating Cities Conference
2012-02-16 EUROCITIES, the network of Europe’s largest cities, will host its fifth Integrating Cities conference, taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on March 8-9 2012.
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Toledo: Police Diversity Management Awards
2012-02-15 At the first national meeting of local security chiefs in Toledo, Spain, the Platform for Police Diversity Management gave out its awards for “Management of the Diverse Society.”
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Phoenix: Congress of Cities
2011-11-22 Celia Muñoz on immigration reform and alternatives to a nation of immigrants – a colony of aliens?
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The Rising Phoenix in Arizona
2011-10-20 The National League of Cities is holding its Congress of Cities in Phoenix to support the city against the state’s anti-immigration law.
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Calgary: When a Mayor Mentors
2011-10-20 When Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi got a call for his office to participate in an immigrant mentoring program, he could not have been more surprised by his intern’s previous job experience.
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London: Talking Riot
2011-09-14 Rob Berkeley, the director of our partner Runnymede Trust, writes “Runnymede warned of the impact of inequalities on our society.”
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Can Immigrants Save Detroit?
2011-07-26 City leaders at a recent conference in Detroit took aim at making “the case for a diverse, international agenda for metro Detroit and Michigan.”
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Barcelona: A New Immigration Social Network
2011-07-22 What happens when media is invited to join a social network designed to improve information about immigration for journalists, communicators and interested institutions?
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Paris: Breaking into the Museum
2011-06-27 Finding new ways to bring young voices and views from marginalized urban locations into cultural institutions through making short films.
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Calgary: Talking Mentoring
2011-05-18 On May 5 and 6, ALLIES (Assisting Local Leaders with Immigrant Employment Strategies) held a mentoring conference in Calgary, Canada to celebrate the successes of current mentoring initiatives.
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Rome: How Rome became La città di Asterix
2011-03-03 A lovely video recently caught our attention. In December 2008, journalist Carlotta Mismetti Capua met four four Afghanistani boys on a city bus. They had travelled 5000 km to get to La città di Asterix, their name for Rome.
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Hamburg: SchlauFox wins The Tulip!
2011-03-03 On March 31, the Hamburger Tulip was awarded to SchlauFox for its contribution to raising intercultural awareness and outstanding commitment to education and the children and young people of Hamburg.
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Winnipeg: Small but Mighty
2011-02-08 Big cities tend to attract large numbers of immigrants and a range of professional and skilled workers to choose from, but what about the small cities?
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London: Migrants for London, London for Migrants
2011-02-03 A new video on immigration highlights the contradictions in a city where migrants are essential to fill the hundreds of thousands of jobs that keep the city functioning yet often face restrictions that place them in a state of extreme vulnerability.
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Hamburg-Mitte: Muslims in EU Cities
2011-02-01 A report on the the political, social and economic participation of Muslim communities in Hamburg. From the Muslims in EU Cities series (open Society).
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London: Update on Maslaha
2010-12-16 The Maslaha Project works to improve access to knowledge, address inequalities, and enable a richer understanding of Islam.
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Barcelona: Improving Integration In Large Cities
2010-09-02 The “City and Diversity” workshop brought together experts on citizen participation, diversity and intercultural management to examine the impact of rapid demographic change on social cohesion.
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Toronto: What Gets Measured Counts
2010-09-01 DiverseCity Counts (year 2) reports that just 14 per cent of leaders in the Greater Toronto Area are members of a racialized group compared with 49.5% of the population at large.
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UK Cities and Refugee Week
2010-09-01 Manchester-Bristol-London-Edinburgh. Every June cities across the UK counter negative stereotypes and fear-mongering around refugees through Refugee Week.
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It’s a treat to be in soccer-mad Toronto
2010-07-29 Toronto is a city of immigrants. For many, it’s soccer that helps them integrate. The struggle to find employment is left outside the pitch and heavily accented English doesn’t matter. It’s a place for new friendships and networking.
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Longing and Belonging in NZ cities
2010-06-01 Find contemporary stories – authentic voices, stories of settlement, challenges – from the diverse peoples of Asian and MELAA origin in New Zealand.
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The Changing Face of American Cities
2010-05-28 Cities in the United States are usually grouped geographically. Now a new report from the US Brookings Institute says a “new Metropolitan map of the nation is emerging….”
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Dispatches from Canadian cities
2010-05-19 From recent immigrant to integrated citizen: cities across Canada share solutions that work. Local leaders in cities across Canada take action to integrate skilled newcomers into the workplace to ensure future prosperity in our cities and communities.
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Dispatches from Canadian cities
2010-04-12 Statistics Canada recently released projections which show that in the coming two decades, the population and diversity of Canadians cities will significantly increase.
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Dispatches from UK Cities
2010-04-12 Learn more about recent UK research on immigrant settlement, multi-media projects on identity, and financial literacy programs for migrants
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Dispatches from Canadian cities
2010-02-11 A look at skilled immigrants and the Canadian labour market, skills recognition and the changing face of leadership in Toronto.
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Dispatches from NZ cities
2009-12-16 2009 was a big year for the arts for celebrating diversity and promoting communication between diverse communities.
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Ziauddin Sardar: In Defense of Multiculturalism
“It is important to realize that multiculturalism is not about dominance of one culture over another. It is not about the dominance of a single culture over a multiple of cultures. It is about equality of cultures.”
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