| Overview The Prairie
Metropolis Centre is one of five
research centres involved in immigration and integration research. It was established in
the spring of 1996 under a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). (See Grant
Application submitted to SSHRC/CIC in November,1995)
The Prairie Metropolis Centre is a consortium representing six prairie
universities including the University of Alberta; University of Calgary; University of
Manitoba; University of Regina; University of Saskatchewan and the University of Winnipeg.
The Centre is based at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, with research nodes at each
of the other five universities.
The Prairie Metropolis Centre brings a multidisciplinary research team
of over 137 Affiliated Researchers
together in a cooperative arrangement to study different aspects
of the complex phenomenon of immigration and immigrant integration
into Canadian society. As well, the Prairie Metropolis Centre, working
in close collaboration with community groups, will be involved
not only in multidisciplinary research but also in applied research.
The Prairie Metropolis Centre's overall objectives include, developing research programs in a
number of Research
Domains; documenting the specific strategies that immigrant groups employ to effect
successful integration within urban structures and systems, the processes by which these
strategies are pursued and modified, and the outcomes of these processes; identifying
policy options that relate to immigrant integration into Canadian society and;
communicating the Centre’s research findings broadly to academic and non-academic
audiences. The goal is to better understand the processes by which immigrants become
Canadians.
The Prairie Metropolis Centre hopes that the research results will provide valuable
recommendations directed toward overcoming barriers and constraints to immigrant
integration.
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