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.
Now Toronto – My Call From a Former Hunger Striker Inside the Lindsay Superjail
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) detains migrants who lack permanent immigration status. The agency says many are a public threat or might go into hiding unless they are locked up. Some of the detained are eventually deported to their home countries. Others cannot be sent back because their lives would be in danger, yet the government offers them no pathway to permanent status, even those who worked and paid taxes in Canada for years. […] In this context, CBSA’s detention and deportation of migrants, particularly those whose presumed crime is simply that they lack permanent status, seems intended to maintain a sense of fear and remind migrant workers of the precariousness of their situation. […] Immigration lawyer Macdonald Scott, who’s represented some of the men in the Lindsay superjail, says the government is deporting people without giving them proper access to legal representation. “It’s almost impossible to get counsel in touch with them,” Scott says in a phone interview. “The chance that someone is going to be able to get in there and stop the removal is almost impossible.”
Timmins Press – International Student Enrolment Climbing at Northern
Northern College is reporting a “substantial increase” in the number of international students studying at its campuses and online. In total, 24 international students from three continents have started a post-secondary program at the college this school year, a substantial increase from only four new international students during the past two years combined. The majority of these students are from India, with additional students coming from China, Mauritania, Nigeria and the United States. Most international students are enrolled in the engineering technology and trades, business and community services programming areas, according to a release issued by the college Monday. […] The college began its current international recruitment efforts in 2009, taking an approach that includes working with a network of recruitment officers abroad. […] “International recruitment is a great way for us to take advantage of the additional capacity we have in some of our programs, and to ensure that some high-quality programs without substantial domestic enrolment, due to changing demographics in Northern Ontario, remain viable offerings,” said Fred Gibbons, president of Northern College.
Vancouver 24 Hours – LGBTQ Immigrants “Minority Within a Minority”
The myriad of issues facing immigrants who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans or Questioning (LGBTQ) is precisely what a six-month pilot project is trying to get to the bottom of. I Belong is a pilot project launched in Burnaby and New Westminster last October that’s aiming to support LGBTQ immigrant newcomers by addressing the intersecting effects of sexuality, gender, race, cultural diversity, class, criminalization and colonialism. On Monday, a community dialogue event drew more than 65 people, from LGBTQ immigrants to service providers, together at Trout Lake Community Centre to gather ideas on how to support the “minority within the minority,” according to Roja Bagheri, program coordinator with MOSAIC Settlement and Family Services. […] Bagheri said there aren’t any service providers out there for LGBTQ immigrant newcomers as a whole. […] Since the beginning of the project, the group has worked with 25 LGBTQ newcomers and a host of service providers. The recommendations from the dialogue, surveys and research will be compiled into a public report after the culmination of the pilot project in March, Bagheri said. […]The project received six months of funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Durham Region – Helping New Immigrants to Durham Important
Fahim Sharaf, the executive director of the Durham West Agency for South Asian Canadians, was born in Afghanistan and came to Canada 22 years ago. […] The Durham West Agency for South Asian Canadians is a new organization and Mr. Sharaf said the hope is to meet monthly to help newcomers. “How can we really help newcomers in Durham? They have to learn the school system, the laws,” he said. “This is what we are focusing on in the long run, to do that.” One agency helping newcomers is The Welcome Centre in Ajax, which is part of the Community Development Council of Durham (CDCD). (There’s also a Welcome Centre in Pickering that’s operated by the Durham Region Unemployed Help Centre.) Hermia Corbette, the Ajax centre’s manager, said the centre offers four core services — language assessment, language instruction, employment services and settlement supports — and between 150 and 180 people use the centre each day. […] The centre is based on a model first offered in Markham, Vaughan and Newmarket. “Durham Region is building on those existing models. We want to create a safe, welcoming space for them.”
La Presse – Famille kurde réfugiée dans une église: Genest portera le dossier au caucus du NPD
L’histoire de la famille Turk, réfugiée à l’église de Rougemont pour éviter la déportation, ne laisse pas indifférent. «On va commencer les démarches. On va voir avec le caucus (du NPD) pour savoir ce qu’il en est par rapport à ça», a commenté samedi le député de Shefford, Réjean Genest, qui prend les choses en main. L’adjointe de circonscription au bureau de Granby du député, Josée Champagne, a déjà consacré plusieurs heures, en novembre, à aider la famille kurde qui demande l’asile depuis son arrivée, en 2011 et 2012. Orhan Turk a débarqué au Québec en octobre 2011 pour rejoindre sa femme et ses enfants qui avaient déjà obtenu leur statut de réfugié. Son cas a été jumelé à celui de la famille de son frère, Kamber, arrivée en mai 2012, pour l’audience devant la commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié (CISR). «On ne peut pas parler en détail du dossier à cause des ententes de confidentialité, mentionne Mme Champagne. Ils sont venus nous rencontrer en novembre en nous demandant de l’aide.» Les pouvoirs du bureau étaient toutefois limités.
Le Devoir – Québec veut une réforme inspirée d’Ottawa
Une réforme majeure de l’immigration, en partie inspirée par Ottawa, est en préparation au Québec. Le temps est venu de remettre en question le modèle québécois d’immigration, d’examiner la façon dont le Québec sélectionne, accueille et intègre les étrangers au marché du travail, selon la ministre de l’Immigration, Kathleen Weil, qui entreprend mercredi un marathon de consultations qui durera toute l’année. En entrevue à La Presse canadienne, la ministre Weil s’est dite prête à entreprendre une « grande réforme » de la relation entretenue entre la société québécoise et les étrangers qui déposent leurs valises chez nous, un processus qui entraînera une révision en profondeur de la loi québécoise de l’immigration, d’ici la fin de l’année. Tout est sur la table, notamment, le modèle « unique en Amérique du Nord » fondé sur l’interculturalisme, un concept qui devra être mieux défini et « compris » par la population, le nombre d’immigrants accueillis chaque année, le mode de sélection, les pays privilégiés, l’importance accordée à la connaissance du français à l’arrivée, les cours de francisation, la reconnaissance des compétences acquises à l’étranger, la régionalisation et le partage de valeurs communes. La ministre veut un vaste débat et promet de se montrer « très ouverte à tout ce qui va être proposé ».
