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.
Council on Foreign Relations “Africa in Transition” Blog: The Closing of the Canadian Border
Canada’s reputation as a country that offers safe resettlement to refugees is in sharp decline. From 1961 until the early 2000s, Canadian immigration policy welcomed both immigrants and refugees, particularly from sub-Saharan Africa. However, Stephen Harper’s conservative government has made it increasingly difficult for refugees to resettle in Canada over the past decade. Nevertheless, in the lead up to the October 19 federal elections, immigration policy has not been the subject of public debate and most candidates have remained relatively silent. The timing of Canada’s refugee restrictions couldn’t be worse—in June, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that the largest number of people ever recorded, around 60 million, were now displaced. Of these, over a quarter hail from sub-Saharan Africa. As highlighted by the Mediterranean refugee crisis, many are willing to take extreme risks to escape their countries of origin. In the past, Canada has been receptive to refugees fleeing crises in the Horn of Africa. Canadians originating from Somalia make up the largest percentage of immigrants and refugees of African origin, at 26 percent. Worldwide, the UNHCR estimates one million Somalis are now refugees, and 1.1 million are internally displaced.
While there are more displaced people in the world now than ever recorded, the number of refugees selected from abroad that Canada targets to resettle yearly remains stagnant. That has the United Nations refugee agency’s representative in Canada hoping for a boost in Canada’s annual quota. It’s not that Canada isn’t contributing—it is. In fact, last year it was second only to the United States in the number of resettled refugees it received through the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It’s regularly among the top three, alongside the US and Australia, admitting between about 10,000 to 13,000 refugees selected abroad per year, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada numbers analyzed by Embassy. (This doesn’t include people who make a claim once they land in Canada, or their dependants abroad.) Yet, the needs keep rising. With people in places like Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia fleeing their homes due to conflict and persecution, more people than ever recorded, 59.5 million, were displaced at the end of 2014, according to the UNHCR.
CBC – International Students Flock to Lower Mainland Schools
The number of international students enrolled in Vancouver-area schools has jumped in the last two years, pumping millions into local school boards, according to figures from the B.C. Ministry of Education. About 8,700 international students, mostly from countries in Asia, enrolled in schools across the region in the last school year of 2014/15, up from about 7,200 enrolled in the previous year. The most popular B.C city for international students was Vancouver, where 1,511 international students enrolled last year. Those students brought in nearly $20 million in tuition revenue. They each pay about $13,000, on average, in tuition each year. The number of foreign students enrolled in Vancouver schools will rise this year to about 1,600 students, said Barb Onstad, director of international education at the Vancouver School board. Most are enrolled in high schools, Onstad said. Across the region, the numbers are also on the rise. At the Coquitlam school board, the number of international students rose from 1,032 in the 2013/14 school year to 1,366 students in 2014/15. Because these students generate significant revenue, boards are eager to increase their numbers.
Radio Canada International – Retirer la citoyenneté canadienne est maintenant plus facile
En 2012, le ministre canadien de l’Immigration de l’époque, Jason Kenney, disait que la citoyenneté de plusieurs milliers de personnes pourrait être révoquée, car elles étaient visées par des enquêtes pour fraude. Trois ans plus tard, au printemps dernier, Immigration Canada nuançait ce chiffre : seulement 81 personnes s’étaient finalement vu retirer leur nationalité. Mais tout pourrait changer et le processus de révocation de la citoyenneté canadienne et d’expulsion du pays pourrait s’accélérer avec l’adoption par sanction royale le 19 juin dernier de la nouvelle loi C-24. Selon ses détracteurs, la nouvelle loi C-24 laisserait un trop grand pouvoir décisionnel au ministre notamment de l’immigration ou à ses représentants.
BBC – Europe “Must Open Official Channels for Migrants”
Talking about “marauders” and “swarms” was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said Francois Crepeau. European countries should open official channels and their labour markets to migrants because building fences would not stop them coming, he said. On Monday, a record number of refugees crossed into Hungary from Serbia. A total of 2,093 migrants, the highest ever daily total, crossed the border near the town of Roszke, a police statement quoted by AFP news agency said. Hungary, a European Union member, is erecting a fence to keep out the migrants, with 110km (68 miles) of the 175km fence now in place. […] Mr. Crepeau, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, called on the EU to create a “coherent and comprehensive migration policy”, making “mobility its central asset”. “Let’s not pretend that what the EU and its member states are doing is working. Migration is here to stay,” he said in a statement. “Building fences, using tear gas and other forms of violence against migrants and asylum seekers, detention, withholding access to basics such as shelter, food or water and using threatening language or hateful speech will not stop migrants from coming, or trying to come, to Europe.”
Digital Journal – Israel Frees Hundreds of Migrants from Desert Facility
Israel released hundreds of African migrants from a desert detention centre Tuesday after a court order, but asylum seekers were left with few options after being barred from two cities. Detainees leaving the facility waited at bus stops for rides and wondered where they would live after being banned from Tel Aviv and Eilat, where African migrant communities have sprung up. One man said he was leaving the Holot Detention Centre with just $17 and a sandwich. The supreme court ordered Israel to release illegal migrants held for more than a year at the detention centre in the Negev desert, in a ruling that affected 1,178 asylum seekers. An initial 750 people were released on Tuesday in small groups, and the rest will be freed on Wednesday, said Sivan Weizman, a prison service spokeswoman. Authorities have barred those freed from entering Tel Aviv and Eilat in the face of hostility from many residents.
