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The
Robert F. Harney Professorship And Program
The Robert
F. Harney Professorship
and Program in Ethnic, Immigration,
and Pluralism
Studies supports and promotes interdisciplinary research
and teaching
on
ethnic diversity and interethnic group relations in Canadian society in
a comparative context. Its purpose is to develop graduate
programs
in the study of ethnicity, and to involve faculty, professionals, and
students
from various disciplines. Expertise in the study of ethnicity is
greatly valued by social agencies, consulting firms, hospitals, civic
organizations,
and other institutions that deal with issues that include: immigration
and immigrant adjustment, Native Peoples, race and race relations,
attitudes towards diverse cultures,
minority group conflicts, and cultural diversity policies.
The Harney
Professorship and Program offers a Collaborative Graduate
Program in
Ethnic and Pluralism Studies in which students have the
opportunity to take
courses
outside
of their department or faculty as they work towards an
interdisciplinary
specialization at either the Master's or the Doctoral level. Please
note that this program
does not confer a degree of its own, but upon
successfully completing program requirements, students receive a
specialization noted on
their transcripts as "Completed Collaborative Program in Ethnic and
Pluralism
Studies." in addition to the
Master's
or Doctorate in their area.
Participating
departments and faculties include: Anthropology,
Centre for
European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES),
Geography,
History,
Industrial
Relations and Human Resources (CIRHR), Nursing Science,
Political
Science,
Religion, NEW! School of Public
Policy and Governance,
Social
Work, Sociology,
Sociology
and Equity Studies in Education (SESE), Theory and Policy
Studies in Education (TPS),
Women and
Gender Studies Institute (WGSI).
For more
details, please visit our "Graduate Program"
page.
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Graduate
program & announcements
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News
& Events |
- NEW! Our 5th Annual Ethnic and
Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference was held on
January 26 and 27, 2012. Read more...
- NEW!
The Canada Program at Harvard University's
Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs is inviting applications for the William
Lyon
Mackenzie King Research Fellowship.
For details about this excellent
opportunity for comparative research, please visit the
fellowship page on the program's website.
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- NEW!
Richard
Alba will be our next speaker for the Harney
Lecture
Series.
Title: "The Looming
Transition
To Diversity in
Wealthy Societies:
Challenge and Opportunity"
Date and time: January
26, 2012, 2-4pm
Location: Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs.
The lecture is open to the public.
- NEW!
Harney Professor Jeffrey Reitz was featured in the TVO program 'Allen
Gregg in conversation'. You can now watch
the video of his interview
on line.
Video topic: Immigration expert
Jeffrey Reitz talks about several aspects of
immigration; that immigrants are still settling in the large cities and
often form ethnic enclaves which may result in residents not fully
integrating into Canadian life and feeling isolated; the pluses and
minuses
of the "points" system is assessing immigrants and the legalities of
temporary workers; that immigrants still feel a sense of
discrimination;
that Canada's multicultural policies have been successful in
integrating
newcomers.
Professor Reitz also wrote
"Support for immigration connected with our national identity"
for the Vancouver Sun on December 13,
2011, and "Supporting
immigration is just so Canadian" for the Toronto
Star on November 7, 2011.
- NEW!
A
new study by Harney Professor Jeffrey Reitz "Pro-immigration
Canada: Social and Economic Roots of Popular Views"
(IRPP Study No 20, Montreal: Institute for Research on
Public Policy, 2011) can be found on the IRPP website.
The study was cited in the lead editorial of the Globe and Mail
(October 19, 2011) and on the CBC National Radio news (October 20,
2011). It was also the
subject of articles in the Toronto Star and Vancouver Sun .
- The
first
event in our
2011-2012
Harney Lecture Series
(open to the
public) took place on October 20, 2011.
Policy Panel Discussion:
“Canadian Refugee Policy in Global Context”
(co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global
Affairs)
- Audrey
Macklin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
- Jeff
Crisp, Head, Policy Development and Evaluation Service,
United
Nations High Commission on Refugees, Geneva
- Zachary
Lomo, LLB, Harvard, former director of the Refugee Law
Project, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (currently a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Cambridge)
- Moderator:
Michael Ignatieff, Munk School of Global Affairs
Details
on this and other events on our
"Events"
page.
- An article
by Professor Jeffrey G. Reitz "Taxi
Driver Syndrome
Behind-the-scenes immigration changes are creating new problems on top
of old ones."
is featured on the
Literary Review of Canada, March 2011.
-
Harney
Professor and Program Director
Jeffrey Reitz was the
featured presenter at the CERIS seminar on November 3, 2010.
See CERIS poster for details.
- A
paper
by Professor Jeffrey Reitz "Selecting Immigrants
for the Short Term - Is it Smart in
the Long Run?"
on recent Canadian immigration
policy (with data on Australian experience) was presented at an
IRPP conference and subsequently published in Policy Options.
Here
is a link
to all the articles in this issue.
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