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.
Toronto Star – Immigrants Took the Brunt of Recession-Year Turn Toward Self-Employment
The recession of 2008 drove many Torontonians in the direction of self-employment — with new immigrants taking the biggest brunt of the shrinking job market, according to a new study. Between 2008 and 2009, the city’s self-employment rate rose from 15.7 per cent to 17.1 per cent, above the provincial and national benchmarks, says the joint report by Social Planning Toronto and Newcomer Women’s Services Toronto. Among self-employed immigrants, 39 per cent had lost their paid employment just before they became self-employed. Some 63 per cent reported earning less than $10,000 a year, compared with about 57 per cent for non-newcomers, says the report, titled “The economy and resilience of newcomers,” to be released Tuesday. […] Based on previously unreleased Statistics Canada data and interviews with newcomer entrepreneurs and service providers, the report examined the impact of labour market restructuring on newcomer entrepreneurship in Toronto.
Winnipeg Free Press – Police, Newcomers Working to Build a Model for Peace
Police, newcomers and social agencies in Winnipeg gathered Tuesday night to get their umoja going. Umoja is the Swahili word for unity and the name of the group trying to turn what’s been called the murder capital of Canada into a model of peace and diversity. On Tuesday night, about 100 members of the group — including Winnipeg police chief Devon Clunis, deputy chief Dave Thorne and Manitoba’s top Mountie, Kevin Brosseau — played games, shared a meal and ideas at the University of Winnipeg. Umoja was formed in 2009 to build trust and communication between police and an influx of newcomers. About 10 per cent of recent immigrants to Winnipeg were refugees from countries where police were seen as oppressors, not peacemakers. Here, there were incidents of prejudice and racial profiling. When a community leader from a West African country was beaten by police in a case of mistaken identity, he went to one of the settlement agencies asking what to do. “He asked ‘How can I deal with what happened to me?’” said Noelle DePape, who works at IRCOM. “‘We need to trust police and develop lines of communication,’” she recalled him saying.
CBC – Refugee Groups Want Welfare Changes Pulled from Omnibus Budget Bill
The Conservative government’s proposed changes to who can qualify for welfare amount to an effort to pressure provinces into adopting anti-refugee policies, say critics who are picking a new fight over benefits for refugee claimants. Nearly 160 groups from across the religious and social spectrum are calling on the government to reverse measures, buried in the latest omnibus budget bill, which open the door to refugee claimants being denied welfare. The Conservatives say they are just giving provinces the flexibility to determine benefits, but it’s not a benign change, Michele Biss of the group Canada Without Poverty told a news conference Tuesday. “The federal government is offering a financial incentive as a means of the provinces implementing the government’s ideological driven policies towards refugees,” Biss said. […] During committee hearings on the issue Tuesday, Conservative MP Gerald Keddy elaborated on his party’s rationale in a heated exchange with Biss. “What it actually allows is those who are abusing the system — false refugees or fake asylum claimants — to lose their social assistance,” Keddy said.
Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada – Communiqué – Célébrer la diversité et le multiculturalisme
Le ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l’Immigration du Canada, Chris Alexander, a prononcé le discours d’ouverture aujourd’hui au colloque de la Fondation canadienne des relations raciales (FCRR), soulignant les efforts des participants pour une société canadienne meilleure et plus inclusive. Le ministre Alexander a parlé de la façon dont chaque communauté, chaque personne et chaque organisation peut aider à sa manière les immigrants à s’intégrer, à découvrir notre histoire, nos valeurs et nos responsabilités communes, et à bâtir notre avenir à tous. Durant le colloque, qui se tient sous le thème « Le Canada actuel : Comment faire ressortir des valeurs civiques communes », des centaines de délégués aborderont divers enjeux liés au multiculturalisme, et contribueront à tracer l’itinéraire à suivre pour assurer un avenir brillant au Canada. La FCRR s’efforce d’aider les Canadiens à combattre la discrimination raciale, et réunit les connaissances en la matière afin que les organisations publiques, privées et bénévoles puissent s’en inspirer pour établir des politiques et des pratiques efficaces qui respectent la diversité et favorisent une citoyenneté inclusive.
CBC – More Refugee Claimants Get 2nd Chance with New Appeal Process
The first available figures from Canada’s new Refugee Appeal Division show more refugee claimants are being given a second chance than under the old federal court review process. The figures obtained by CBC News from the Immigration and Refugee Board from 2013 and the first three quarters of 2014 show that about 19 per cent of finalized claims were successful in either being overturned in favour of the claimant or sent back to the Refugee Protection Division for reassessment. […] Refugee experts say the numbers reveal how many mistakes weren’t being caught under the old system. But they add many more mistakes are still going undetected because the process is too restrictive, and those mistakes could be sending people back into dangerous or even deadly situations. Under the old system of judicial review, only about seven per cent of rejected claimants were granted leave to appeal their cases to the Federal Court. That means the number of people who are now getting a chance at an appeal has nearly tripled.
Toronto Star – Vietnamese Refugees Arrive in Canada
It took a quarter century for Sabay Kieng to reach the arrivals hall at Pearson International Airport’s Terminal One. Kieng was one of 14 Vietnamese refugees to arrive in Toronto Saturday to a new Canadian home, after living stateless in Thailand for 25 years. […] A total of 105 refugees will arrive in Canada before the end of the year, as part of an agreement with the federal government initiated during talks with the Vietnamese community that began in 2005. What is remarkable is that it took decades for the group to find a home, making them arguably among the world’s most forgotten refugees. […] Kieng and his family were among the so-called “boat people” who left their country to escape the Communist regime. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, close to a million people fled to other lands. In Canada, 60,000 refugees from the Indochina area were resettled here in less than two years starting in 1979. Many others, like Kieng, entered nearby Thailand where they remained stateless.
