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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.
“L’image de la tragédie des réfugiés a changé le bleu presque noir des eaux qui engloutissent les naufragés pour le blanc glacial qui fouette l’Europe”, alerte le quotidien El País, qui évoque les images de “tentes ensevelies sous la neige” et “de corps couverts par une couche de gel”. Personne ne fait le bilan de ces migrants retrouvés congelés aux frontières de l’Europe.
After months of looking for a new home, the St. John’s-based Refugee and Immigrant Advisory Council (RIAC) has a temporary fix. Common Ground, which describes itself as a coworking space and startup house, offered RIAC the space after the council had to move out of its Water Street location last fall due to a lack of funds.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/riac-common-ground-1.3937385
As the chief operating officer of a large community services organization in Surrey, where most of B.C.’s refugees land, Tahzeem Kassam of DIVERSEcity is at the forefront of the local Syrian resettlement effort. Both DIVERSEcity and the ISSofBC have websites inviting people to sign up as volunteers to help refugees, but matching volunteers with people in need is not always easy, she says. […] “It’s great that the community wants to help, but then how do we make that matchup? Who does that and how do we mitigate any risks associated with that and how do we train people appropriately for it?”
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/offers-of-help-for-refugees-overwhelm-support-groups-1.7529072
Canada will meet its commitment to bring an unspecified number of persecuted Yazidis to Canada by late February, according to the federal government’s new immigration minister. In an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, newly minted Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen said his government would soon provide a detailed update on its Yazidi efforts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ahmed-hussen-interview-pandp-1.3938169
The 28-nation EU already has a controversial deal to stem the flow of migrants from Turkey, which has agreed to try to stop the number of migrants leaving the country and to take back thousands more. In exchange, Turkey is supposed to receive billions of euros, visa-free travel for its citizens, and fast-tracked EU membership talks. Now, the EU wants to adapt this outsourcing pact to the African nations that migrants are leaving or are jumping off from to reach Europe, despite criticism that the agreement sends asylum-seekers back to countries that could be unsafe for them.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/crisis-warnings-sound-as-eu-gears-up-for-new-migrant-wave-1.3241953
Le président désigné Donald Trump a estimé qu’Angela Merkel avait commis «une erreur catastrophique» en ouvrant son pays aux migrants, et a accusé l’Allemagne de dominer l’UE, dans une interview diffusée dimanche soir. «Je pense qu’elle a fait une erreur catastrophique et que c’était de prendre tous ces migrants illégaux, de prendre tous ces gens d’où qu’ils viennent» […].