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Une vingtaine de citoyens ont participé à une rencontre d’information sur l’accueil de réfugiés syriens, mercredi soir, à l’invitation d’Accueil et intégration Bas-Saint-Laurent. Cette rencontre visait à expliquer le processus de parrainage privé de réfugiés, puisqu’il s’agit, pour l’instant, de la seule façon pour Rimouski d’accueillir des réfugiés syriens.

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/est-quebec/2016/01/28/003-refugies-syriens-parrainage-prive-rencontre-rimouski.shtml

L’Allemagne a annoncé jeudi placer l’Algérie, le Maroc et la Tunisie sur la liste des pays « sûrs » dont elle refoulerait les migrants, alors que la Suède et la Finlande, aux prises avec des tensions croissantes, veulent renvoyer des dizaines de milliers de demandeurs d’asile déboutés.

http://www.lapresse.ca/international/crise-migratoire/201601/28/01-4944945-suede-finlande-et-allemagne-restreignent-lacces-au-statut-de-refugie.php

Grâce à des soirées dans des bars, à des sites de financement collectif, à des soupers spaghetti dans des sous-sols d’églises et à des foires d’artisanat, des milliers de Canadiens tentent actuellement de ramasser l’argent nécessaire pour parrainer des réfugiés syriens. Il est toutefois difficile de déterminer combien de demandeurs d’asile syriens parrainés […].

http://www.lactualite.com/actualites/quebec-canada/le-doute-plane-sur-le-nombre-de-parrainage-prive-de-refugies-syriens/

Dazzled by an unprecedented wave of migration, Sweden on Thursday put into words an uncomfortable reality for Europe: If the continent isn’t going to welcome more than 1 million people a year, it will have to deport large numbers of them to countries plagued by social unrest and abject poverty. Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said Sweden could send back 60,000-80,000 asylum seekers in the coming years. Even in a country with a long history of immigration, that would be a scale of expulsions unseen before. […] European Union officials have urged member countries to quickly send back those who don’t qualify for asylum so that Europe’s welcome can be focused on those who do, such as people fleeing the war in Syria.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/mass-deportations-expected-as-eu-official-declares-majority-of-migrants-not-refugees-1.2755297

While the Liberals say they remain committed to bringing in 25,000 government assisted refugees by the end of this year, they’ve not actually set a firm number for how many privately sponsored ones they will accept. “The final number of privately sponsored Syrian refugees that will be resettled to Canada will depend in part on the number of private sponsors that express an interest in sponsoring, and on the 2016 Immigration Levels Plan that is expected to be tabled in the coming weeks,” the Citizenship and Immigration department said.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-won-t-say-how-many-privately-sponsored-syrian-refugees-canada-will-take-1.2756263

Refugee women who come to Canada have greater risk of giving birth prematurely than non-refugee immigrants, a study by a St. Michael’s Hospital researcher has found. Those risks are fueled by the fact that the preterm birth rate was 7.1 per cent among secondary refugees – those who spent more than six months in a transit country before arriving in Canada -compared to five per cent among secondary, non-refugee immigrants. These so-called “secondary refugees” also had a greater absolute risk of preterm birth than Canadian-born women (6.4 per cent). “This suggests that refugee experiences in countries before coming to Canada are not conducive to good health,” said Dr. Susitha Wanigaratne, a researcher at St. Michael’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health, who has a PhD in epidemiology.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-refugee-women-higher-preterm-birth.html