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Inside this issue:

Early 2019 has seen cold temperatures in Lethbridge and continued exciting activity in the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy.

In other news not noted in this issue, I have carried the banner of the Prentice Institute and the U of L to the Philippines in March 2019 where I participated in meetings of the Executive Council of the International Sociology Association. I am the only Canadian Sociologist to be elected to this council. I also gave invited talks in Manila The routine Quality Assurance review to faculty and students at the University mentioned in the Fall Prentice Post, of the Philippines. In June, I am invited was delayed due to inclement weather to give a Keynote Address at an interfor the External Reviewers who were national conference in Adelaide, unable to travel. They had to reschedAustralia on Aging in a Foreign ule their visit from February to 19-20 March. We look forward to their report Land . and recommendations and hope that The Prentice Institute is gaining in their report, along with the self-study report we prepared will lead to positive international recognition. change in the many challenges and Susan McDaniel, Ph.D., FRSC constraints we have faced.

Director, Prentice Institute for Global We have an excellent Brown Bag series Population & Economy this spring, noted in this issue. These Prentice Research Chair & talks are well attended by faculty, stu- Professor of Sociology dents and community people. Most all Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Global Population & Life Course of them are video recorded and made (2011-14 only when U of L took the available on our web site where they CRC away due to lost SSHRC allocation) receive large numbers of hits. This is outreach in a very public modern way.

Immigration & Migration Articles by Research Affiliates Immigration and migration issues both in Alberta and across Canada are represented in the following articles by Research Affiliates Haan, Michael, Calhoun, A. & Liu, Z. 2018. “The r etur n migr ation patter ns of Canadian seniors: insights from the 1991 cancer cohort study.” Journal of Population Research, 35(4): 343-362. doi.org/10.1007/s12546-018-9213-z.

Mueller, Richard E. 2018. “Enhancing Labour Mobility in Alber ta: The Role of Immigration, Migration, and Developing Existing Human Capital.” ResearchGate. (link) Trovato, Frank. 2019. “The Immigr ant Mor tality Advantage in Canada, 2001 and 2011.” Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-29. doi.org/10.1007/s12134019-00655-2.

Young, Julie E.E. 2018. “Seeing like a bor der city: Refugee politics at the bor der s of city and nation-state.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0): 1-17. doi.org/10.1177/2399654418790765.

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Mission Statement

The Prentice Institute excels at researching the changing human population and its potential impacts on social and economic issues, and communicating its findings widely.

The Prentice Institute and its research collaborators seek to understand longterm changes in the human and economic environments, within a historical context, with particular attention to the role human actions play in influencing those outcomes.

We conduct and integrate research on the dynamics of Canadian and global demography and their impacts on economic wellbeing through migration, culture, trade and natural resource availability.

We communicate widely the output of our work and that of others to stimulate further research and to enable individuals, governments, and corporations to make better-informed decisions. We educate students and future researchers.

Prentice Post is the Bi-Annual newsletter of the Prentice Institute for Global Population

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Some Outreach Presentations by Research Affiliates

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Journal edited by Prentice Research Affiliate Richard Mueller – Research Affiliate, Editor, Special Issue, Canadian Public Policy Canadian Public Policy Vol. 44, No. S1, November 2018 Information and Communications Technologies Talent: The Skills We Need Ross Finnie, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, (Editors) https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cpp.2018-001

Chapters by Prentice Research Affiliates Lethbridge, October 2018. On the occasion of Nigeria’s 58th National Day Anniversary this past October, Olutoyin Oyebola, along with Prentice Research Affiliates Bonnie Lee, Glenda Bonifacio, and Alexander Darku were the speakers at a symposium: Global Migration & Canadian Immigration Challenges and Opportunities: Searchlight into Human History and Periscoping the Future. The event was held at the Lethbridge Public Library.

Abdie Kazemipur – National Research Affiliate, University of Calgary. Book Chapter Kazemipur, Abdolmohammad. 2019. “Religion in Canadian Ethnic Landscape: The Muslim Factor,” in Shibao Guo & Lloyd Wong, (Eds.), Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospects and Prospects, from Series Transnational Migration and Education, Volume: 4. Danvers, MA: Brill Sense and Hotei Publishing, pp. 261-280. ISBN: 978-90-04-37608-3.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376083

Lethbridge, March, 2019. at the Lethbridge International Film Festival, held in Lethbridge Alberta, Prentice Research Affiliate Yale Belanger was the discussant at the screening of “Alt Right; A ge of Rage” by Director Adam Bhala Lough.

Constantine Passaris – National Research Affiliate, University of New Brunswick. Book Chapter Passaris, C. E. 2019. “The Economics of Internetization,” in Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, (Ed.) Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Network Architecture, Mobile Computing, and Data Analytics IGI Global, pp. 1714-1729. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7598-6.ch126. https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/the-economics-ofinternetization/214734

Paris, March, 2019, At the Issues in the Intergenerational Mobility and inequality Conference at Keiko University, Miles Corak presented “Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States.”

John Ziker – International Research Affiliate, Boise State University. Book Chapter

Lethbridge, March, 2019, Presenting at Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs, Trevor Harrison “Making Sense of the Yellow Vest Protests” Dr. Harrison discussed whether all Yellow Vesters are alike, the deeper meaning of the Yellow Vest movement and possible implications on provincial and federal politics/ elections.

Ziker, John P. & Fulk, Kar en S. “Indigenous Siber ian Food Sharing Networks: Social Innovation in a Transforming Economy,” in Francesca Grippa, João Leitão, Julia Gluesing, Ken Riopelle & Peter Gloor, (Eds.) Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 117 -127. Published online 27 March 2018. https:// doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74295-3_10

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Edited Books by Prentice Research Affiliates Julie E. E. Young – Research Affiliate, Book McGrath, Susan & Julie E. E. Young. (Eds.). 2019.

Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press.

Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together a vibrant collection of topics and perspectives. It addresses ethical methods in research practice, the possibilities of social media for data collection and information dissemination, environmental displacement, transitional justice, and more.

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio –Research Affiliate, Book Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe, (Ed.). 2019. Global Y outh Migration and Gendered Modalities, Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

An international group of contributors explore the imperial histories of youth migration, their identities and sexualities, the impact of education, policies and practices, and the roles, contribution and challenges of young migrants in certain industries and services, as well as in communities.

Gender & Family Articles by Prentice Research Affiliates International and national data and research drive these diverse articles published by our Research Affiliates in the subject of gender, women, and family.

Clark, Shelley, De Almada, M., Kabir u, C.W., Mithur i, S. & Wanjohi, M. 2018.

“Balancing paid work and child care in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya: the case for centrebased child care.” Journal of Family Studies, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2018.1511451.

Madhavan, S., Clark, Shelley & Hara, Y. 2018. “Gendered emotional Support and Women’s Well-Being in a Low-income Urban African Setting.” Gender & Society, 32 (6): 837-859. doi.org/10.1177/0891243218786670. *Margolis, R., Hou, F., Haan, Michael & Holm, A. 2019. “Use of Parental Benefits by Family Income in Canada: Two Policy Changes.” Journal of marriage and family, 81(2): 450-467. DOI:10.1111/jomf.12542.

Mueller, Richard E., Tr uong, N.T.K., Smoke, W. 2018. “Under r epr esentation of Women in Canada’s Information and Communication Technology Sector: What Can We Learn from a Canadian Survey of Adult Skills?” Canadian Public Policy, 44(S1):S73S90. DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2017-073.

Ziker, John P. & Fulk, Kar en S. 2018. “Paying It Forward or Giving Back?

Women’s Sharing Networks in Siberia.” Cross-Cultural Research, 1-19. doi.org/10.1177/1069397118806821.

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Affiliate Spotlight: Adébiyi Germain Boco Dr. Germain Boco Demographer, Research Analyst, At Prentice Institute Since 2012.

Dr. Adébiyi Germain Boco received a PhD in Demography (with distinction) in 2011 from the Université de Montréal and has an MSc in Demography (with distinction) from Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and a BSc in Econometrics and Economics from the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin). His Ph.D. was a comparative study of individual and community level effects on child mortality in subSaharan African countries.

Boco’s current research investigates the mechanisms through which societal-level constructs (i.e., income inequality, religious environment) shape health outcomes across the life span. His methodological toolkit ranges from traditional demographic methods including survival analysis, microsimulation methods and population projections, to techniques in causal inference as well as qualitative research and the design of multilevel and longitudinal analysis for investigating societal influences on health outcomes throughout the life course.

Dr. Boco has acted as a consultant and expert to several health programs and international development projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development, The World Bank, Care International, PlaNet Finance West Africa, and several governments in Africa. Dr. Boco has worked closely with Dr. McDaniel, doing data analysis, providing analytic methods for research projects, and developing international comparative data analysis. Boco is currently publishing and is published in refereed journals and has presented nearly twenty conference papers and posters.

We are fortunate to have him in the Prentice Institute.

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Impacts of Literacy and Numeracy on Earnings: Do Immigration Admission Categories Matter? 15 March, 2019 Richard E. Mueller Neither adult nor young immigrants perform as well on literacy and numeracy tests as those born in Canada, although young immigrants have higher test scores than adult immigrants. Similar results are found for wages, our metric for success in the labour market. Generally, we find that economic immigrants tend to have the highest test scores and hourly wages, with refugees having the lowest, amongst all immigration categories.

Intergroup Sentiments and Interpretations of Islam among Muslims: The Role of Demography and social Interactions, 15 February 2019 Syed H. Ali This presentation will explores Muslims’ attitudes toward non-Muslims and their religious views using two different datasets of PEW Research Center, which cover more than 30,000 Muslim respondents in 37 countries. In addition, the presentation will highlight how different forms of social experiences of Muslims, as a minority/ majority population and the nature of their interactions with non-Muslims, influence their intergroup attitudes and interpretations of Islam. (now available on video)

Biological Toll of Racism on Health, 29 March, 2019 Cheryl Currie The ways in which racism may get under the skin to influence brain, body and behaviour remains less well understood. In this presentation, Dr. Currie will discuss the aetiologic pathways linking racism to biological health within racialized populations.

Cheryl Currie will present based on information from her recent articles (listed below).

Recent Ar ticles on Indigenous Topics by Prentice Research Affiliates We have two Research Affiliates publishing in the area of the complex issues of First Nations. These articles encompass the effects of the past on the lives today and into the future.

Motz, T. A., Currie Cheryl. L. 2019. “Racially-motivated housing discrimination experienced by Indigenous postsecondary students in Canada: impacts on PTSD symptomology and perceptions of university stress.” Public Health, in press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.12.011.

Chief Moon-Riley, K., Copeland, J.L., Metz, G.A.S., Currie, Cheryl L. 2018. “The biological impacts of Indigenous residential school attendance on the next generation.” SSM – Population Heath, 7(2019), 100343. doi.org/10.1016/ j.ssmph.2018.100343.

Belanger, Yale. 2018. “Fir st Nations Gaming in Canada: Gauging Past and Ongoing Development.” Journal of Law and Social Policy, 30: 175-184. (link)

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New Appointments strategies from economics and epidemiology. His primary interests are population-level exposures and their impact on poverty and health, how governments can address those exposures, and the distributional impacts of addressing those exposures.

Dan Dutton, Newest Research Affiliate If you happened to be at the Institute between July 2015 and October of the following year, you might have met post-doc Dan Dutton. Since then he has continued with many successes.

Daniel Dutton

In January of this year, Dr. Dutton accepted the invitation to become a Prentice Institute Research Affiliate.

He is now Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University’s Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, based at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick.

His current research falls into three general categories: social epidemiology, applied health and social policy, and computational epidemiology. Most of his work is quantitative, utilizing large data sets and modelling

Currently that work focuses on homelessness, housing, and governmental policy. He also has an interest in methodological practice, including how research is done in applied epidemiology and the questions researchers answer.

He has taught econometrics, statistics, epidemiology, and population health classes and served on the City of Calgary’s ”Calgary Equity Index” working group. Dan completed his Ph.D. in Community Health Sciences with a specialization in Population and Public Health at the University of Calgary in 2014, his other degrees are in economics from Calgary (MA) and Queen’s (BAH).

Prior to his Ph.D. Dan worked for a short time in the Ontario Ministry of Finance.

Recent Ar ticles on Health & Policy By Prentice Research Affiliates The following articles pertain to population, individual, and intergenerational health. Published in a wide range of journals, our Research Affiliates are currently contributing to knowledge as the well as policy nationally and internationally.

Clark, Shelley, Madhavan, S. & Kabir u, C. 2018. “Kin suppor t and child health: Investigating two appr oaches in an African slum.” Social Science Research, 76: 105-119. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.08.00.

Reddy, S.K., Mazhar, S. & Lencucha, Raphael. 2018. “The financial sustainability of the World Health Organization and the political economy of global health governance: a review of funding proposals.” Globalization and Health, 14(119): 1-11. DOI: 10.1186/s12992-018-0436-8.

Appau, A., Lencucha, Raphael, Finch, L. & May, N. 2019. “Further validation of the Preference-Based Stroke Index three months after stroke.” Clinical Rehabilitation, 1-7. DOI: 0.1177/0269215519834064.

Lencucha, Raphael, Rucher t, A., Latbonte, R. & Dr ope, J . 2018. “Opening windows and closing gaps: a case analysis of Canada’s 2009 tobacco additives ban and its policy lessons.” BMC Public Health, 18(1321): 1-11. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-0186157-3.

Zhang, Y., Dennis, J. A., Leung, Brenda, et. al. 2019. “Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by U.S. Adults with SelfReported Doctor-Diagnosed Arthritis: Results from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey.” PM&R, 1-32, DOI:10.1002/ pmrj.12124.

Letourneau, N., Dewey, D., Leung, Brenda, et. al. 2018. “Intergenerational transmission of adverse childhood experiences via maternal depression and anxiety and moderation by child sex.” Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 1-12.

DOI:10.1017/S2040174418000648.

Memedovich, K.A., Noseworthy, Tom, et. al. 2018. “The adverse health effects and harms related to marijuana use: an overview review.” CMAJ Open, 6(3): 1-9. DOI:10.9778/cmajo.20180023.

Hofmeister, M., Memedovich, A., Noseworthy, Tom, et. al. 2018. “Palliative care in the home: a scoping review of study quality, primary outcomes, and thematic component analysis.” BMC Palliative Care, 17(1): 1-7. DOI: 10.1186/s12904-018-0299-z.

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Prentice Institute Associate Director Featured in Public Professor Series The Building Blocks of Africa’s Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics 24 January 2019 http://www.uleth.ca/node/3024

Socialism’. These movements were driven by the ascendency of vibrant and charismatic young leaders who rose to political leadership across Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Transition and Derailment of Nation Building Era (1966-early 1980s) – by the military coup d’état defines these years. They were the backlash of the mistakes of the nation building efforts of the nationalist leaders of the past. The coups created enormous personal wealth and showed that politics could creDr. Alexander Darku, Associate ate a short-cut. The corruption emDirector, Prentice Institute, Assobedded in Africa emerged from this ciate Professor of Economics, University of Lethbridge era. Due to OPEC oil price hikes, many African countries also now Dr. Darku spoke to approximately had an enormous growth in external 300 public attendees at the PUBlic debt.

Professor Series of the University of Lethbridge hosted event January 24, The Internationalisation of Development Efforts (early 1980s2019 in downtown Lethbridge. present) – economic policy formuHis topic covered a broad history of lation and implementation is taken issues facing Sub-Saharan Africa. on by IMF and the World Bank.

He led his audience through histori- They introduced the Stabilization cal stages right up to present day and Structural Adjustment Prowhere he offered definitive ways grams which turned into External and means forward into a brighter Debts and Poverty Reduction Profuture. He said Africa has a “Soul of grams. These programs ultimately Happiness not ‘Heart of Darkness.’” created more corruption and more debt for most countries, without any The Great Enthusiasm and Foun- significant nation building or povdation Era (1957-1965) – witnessed erty reduction. the formation of the ‘United States of Africa’ and experimentation for Way Forward – to relaunch state nation building with ‘Scientific led industrialization with particular focus on rural industrialization. The 6

relaunch should comprise initially of labour intensive small and medium scale enterprises and moving up the ladder of skills and technology.

This will allow agriculture to play its expected role in the development process. This proposed approach is a comprehensive national development strategy. It is vital to have both a top-down national urban development plan and a bottom-up participatory integrated rural industrialization development strategy.

Three examples of good governance and political will: Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Mauritius

Local Research Ar ticle In his case study of the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide, Prentice Research Affiliate Michael Vallee introduces a new perspective on disaster sites, correlating the specific technicality of scientific research and management of disaster sites with a broader conceptual framework from within the social sciences and spatial theories.

Vallee, Mickey. 2019. “Falling in Place: Geoscience, Disaster, and Cultural Heritage at the Frank Slide, Canada’s Deadliest Rockslide.” Space and Culture, 22(1), 6676. doi.org/10.1177/1206331218795829.