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
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Les modifications au Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires donnent un coup de pouce aux propriétaires d’usines de transformation de fruits de la mer du Nouveau-Brunswick. Depuis de nombreuses années, le vieillissement de la main-d’oeuvre et l’exode rural forcent les usines à dépendre davantage des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (TÉT).
La Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne (FCFA) du Canada accueille très positivement le rapport Vers un nouveau plan d’action pour les langues officielles et un nouvel élan pour l’immigration francophone en milieu minoritaire, déposé hier par le Comité permanent sur les langues officielles.
http://www.fcfa.ca/fr/Communiques_21/Communiques-2016_748#15%20décembre%202016
Zoe Dickson and Felicia Joh became sisters when they had no one else. In the early 1990s, the friends — who once played on opposing kickball teams — fled Liberia separately during a bitter civil war.
Ottawa’s decision to scrap a controversial rule that limited how long foreign workers can stay in Canada is being welcomed by businesses, analysts and migrant worker advocates as the first step in a series of reforms they hope will ultimately transform the immigration system.
The government announced Tuesday afternoon it will allow migrant workers to continue filling jobs in industries ranging from meat-packing to tourism for as many years as their employers continue to renew their permit – in effect, making the presence of these temporary workers more permanent.
At least 34 Afghan asylum seekers arrived in their home country after being deported from Germany a day earlier, a Kabul airport official said. The group was the first to arrive back in Afghanistan after a new agreement was made between the German government and Kabul in October. The Kabul airport chief of police, Mohammad Asif Jabarkhil, said the deportees, all young men without families, landed around 5am on Thursday. Many expressed disappointment over their deportation, saying they had lived and worked in Germany for years and were now forced to come back without any job prospects.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/germany-deports-afghan-asylum-seekers-161215103512214.html
The number of Americans seeking refugee status in Canada has experienced a significant bump this year, increasing more than five times in November 2016 from the same period a year earlier. The overall numbers, however, remain tiny. Few people seek to flee the world’s largest economy, and one of its oldest democracies, on humanitarian grounds: A mere 170 Americans claimed asylum at Canada’s land borders through the first 11 months of this year. Yet that was more than twice the total from 2015 — and it was led by a noticeable five-fold increase in the month of November, with 28 people claiming refugee status last month compared with merely five in November 2015.