Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.
Toronto Star – Refugee Children More Vulnerable to Injuries, Sick Kids Study Finds
Refugee children and youth have a higher rate of getting injured in accidents than their non-refugee immigrant counterparts, a new study has found. The added risks can be attributed to environmental, social and cultural differences, underlining the need for more targeted interventions to reduce injury risk, said the researchers with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and the Hospital for Sick Children.
The Guardian – P.E.I. Group Working to Reunite Somali Refugee Family
A group of Island volunteers is working to reunite the members of a Somali refugee family in P.E.I. and help them heal from the trauma they experienced as a result of the horrors of war. In 2009, the Nuur family witnessed the brutal execution of their father by rebel troops outside the family home in Somalia.
Toronto Star – Immigration Detainee Who Has Spent Four Years in Jail Says Detention Violates Canada’s Charter of Rights
A failed refugee claimant who has spent four-and-a-half years in a maximum security jail because the government has been unable to deport him argued in Ontario Superior Court on Tuesday that his ongoing detention violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ebrahim Toure, who has been locked up at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay since February 2013 despite not facing any criminal charges, is arguing that his detention is indefinite and arbitrary because there is no reasonable prospect he will be deported in the “foreseeable” future.
Toronto Star – Cap on Refugee Sponsorships Means Syrians in Canada Remain Separated from Family Members
After welcoming more than 48,000 Syrian refugees into the country over the last two years, Canada is faced with a new challenge known in the refugee sponsorship circles as the “echo effect” — the surge in demand to sponsor the families and relatives of recently resettled refugees, said Janet Dench of the Canadian Council for refugees. In 2017, there are only some 16,000 private sponsorship spots for refugees. Separately, there are 7,500 spots for government-assisted refugees and 1,500 for those referred by visa offices, who are selected by authorities and prioritized for the most vulnerable.
La Presse – Grèce : les conditions de détention des migrants jugés « inacceptables »
Cellules «crasseuses» et surpeuplées, manque de nourriture et d’eau potable, violences policières: l’organe anti-torture du Conseil de l’Europe a dénoncé mardi les conditions d’accueil «inacceptables» de milliers de migrants placés dans des centres de rétention en Grèce.
Toronto Star – Canadian Aid Workers Describe Chaos at Rohingya Border Camp
Standing on the easternmost riverside city of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in the shadow a Burmese horizon that’s still on fire, Zaid Al-Rawni watched small boats crossing the treacherous waters full of people. “It was chaos, complete chaos,” he said. “When I got there (early last week) the numbers were in the (high) 200,000s. By the time I left, they were talking about 400,000 people who had crossed.”
