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.
Le Droit – Gatineau est un « modèle », dit Weil
La Ville de Gatineau est un modèle d’intégration des immigrants grâce à ses nombreuses initiatives pour stimuler l’entreprenariat, soutient la ministre de l’Immigration du Québec, Kathleen Weil. De passage à en Outaouais à l’occasion de la Foire des entrepreneurs interculturels de Gatineau-Ottawa, hier, Mme Weil a vanté diverses stratégies propres à la région. La ministre a entre autre nommé le Service Intégration Travail Outaouais (SITO). «Le SITO, un modèle. Un modèle. On voudrait pouvoir reproduire le SITO partout au Québec», a dit la ministre.
Radio-Canada – Crise des réfugiés : la Turquie presse l’Europe de prendre ses responsabilités
Le président turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a proposé à l’Union européenne (UE) de créer dans le nord de la Syrie une zone protégée par une exclusion aérienne, dans le but de mettre un terme aux bombardements contre les populations civiles et de limiter ainsi leur exode vers la Turquie voisine, puis vers l’Europe. « La cause fondamentale de la crise actuelle des réfugiés, c’est la guerre en Syrie », a-t-il déclaré, de passage à Bruxelles lundi pour discuter avec les membres de la Commission européenne.
Radio-Canada – Un conseiller municipal de Saskatoon dénonce des appels racistes cotnre les réfugiés
Le représentant local d’un groupe de travail national sur la crise des réfugiés syriens s’inquiète de recevoir des appels anonymes à caractère raciste, à Saskatoon. Ces appels ont un thème récurrent, soit de garder le Canada « blanc », dit le conseiller municipal de Saskatoon, Darren Hill. « C’est vraiment troublant d’entendre des commentaires d’appels anonymes qui disent que le Canada n’est plus ce qu’il était, parce qu’il n’est plus aussi blanc qu’avant », raconte-t-il.
CBC – New Canadians Overcoming Barriers to Casting Ballots
Last year 260,000 people became new Canadian citizens. Historic patterns suggest only about half of them will vote. Statistics Canada reports that new Canadians are less likely to vote than established immigrants and those born in Canada. The Institute for Canadian Citizenship set out to discover why. In interviews with more than 2,000 immigrants it found barriers that could easily be overcome, primarily a lack of understanding how to vote. “The people that we talked to were really keen to vote, really keen to give back to the country,” said Heather Steel, director of the Insights Program at ICC. It’s proposing measures to make it easier to vote, like providing clear information on the voting process, how to vote, where to vote, and the parties` platforms. “They’re the largest growing segment of the population,” says Steel. “If we’re not making sure they have the tools to be able to participate, a huge proportion of the population isn’t going to be participating on where this country is headed, and that would be a real shame.”
CTV News – Ottawa Counts on Churches to Help Bring Certain Groups of Syrians to Canada
The Conservative government is counting on private sponsorship to ensure that the 10,000 Syrian refugees it has promised to accept between now and next September will be first and foremost Christians, Druze, Kurds and other minorities it wishes to prioritize. […]The UNHCR has specific criteria when it comes to prioritizing certain refugees for resettlement outside the country where they first seek asylum. Their religious and ethnic backgrounds are not considered — unless these backgrounds put the refugees at risk in the country where they are seeking asylum, not the country they fled. […] Since raising the target to 10,000 Syrian refugees between now and September 2016, Prime Minister Stephen Harper often repeats his government’s commitment to prioritize “the most vulnerable … especially religious and ethnic minorities.” Since the UNHCR cannot selectively send these groups Canada, the government is turning to churches. […] As of Sept. 8, Canada had received 1,106 of the 10,000 Syrian refugees promised by next September. Of that number, 888 made their way to Canada as a result of private sponsorship.
CBC – Canada’s Refugees: Where They Come From by the Numbers
Refugees from nearly every country have come to Canada over the years. And often the countries they came from reflect the history of international crises, like Syria and Iraq today or Chile and Bangladesh in the 1970s and Sri Lanka and Haiti more recently. Over the last 10 years, about 26,000 refugees arrived in Canada annually, according to numbers from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Of that number, an average of about 11,000 were refugees who came to Canada and successfully claimed refugee status and 4,000 were their dependants. Seven thousand refugees received government assistance to resettle in Canada, and 4,000 were privately sponsored. In 2014, 23,285 refugees were admitted to Canada, In recent years, refugees have accounted for slightly less than 10 per cent of all immigrants who come to Canada. […]Internal conflict has engulfed Colombia for the past five decades, says University of British Columbia professor Pilar Riano-Alcala, and civilians have been a major target of the military, the leftist guerillas and the right-wing paramilitaries. […]Canada has been a major destination for Colombian refugees, helped by a Canadian policy that allows Colombians to request asylum while still in Colombia, Riano says.
