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.
The Petrolia Topic – CK Couple Reaching Out to Thai Migrant Workers
The VanKoeverdens, who met and married in Thailand, both speak the Thai language and use their skills for the Thai Migrant Worker Outreach organization to provide helpful programs such as Train The Trainer. The couple are volunteers who teach the workers English words and phrases that best relate to the job they will perform. Most Thai migrant workers in Chatham-Kent work at one of five greenhouses within the municipality. […] During the winter months, Gerry and Lek hold five-week classes that again help the workers with their English language skills, but they also teach them how to navigate through the community and their workplace. Lek said there are approximately 70 Thai migrant workers in Chatham-Kent, plus 3,000 across Ontario, that are on a standard two-year work contract. The contract can be extended to four years if the foreign workers choose to stay.
CBC – Supreme Court Clarifies Rules on Refugees and War Crimes
The Supreme Court of Canada issued a ruling Friday that clarifies the test that immigration officials should use when deciding if a refugee applicant was complicit in war crimes. The unanimous decision found that guilt by association is not reason enough to deny someone refugee protection. It said in order to be excluded from protection the refugee applicant must “voluntarily make a knowing and significant contribution to the crime or criminal purpose of the group alleged to have committed the crime.” It added the evidentiary burden falls on the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. […] The case stems from a decision by the federal government to deny refugee status to Ezokola. He worked for the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for eight years, four of them as a prominent diplomat at the United Nations.
The Tyee – Attracted by Yukon’s Nominee Program, Migrant Workers Increasingly Bunk Up to Make Ends Meet
[There is] a growing trend of migrant workers in Whitehorse’s service sector industry who have bunked up two to a room to afford housing with their meagre salaries. It’s the way Indian, Filipino and Korean migrant workers afford living in Whitehorse, said Ardie Cabardo, an immigrant who was one of the first Filipinos to arrive in Whitehorse 13 years ago. “We don’t really care to share a room. Our idea of privacy is different.” […] Not many immigrants are accepted to the Yukon Nominee Program (YNP), according to the territory’s education department, which administers the stream. Only 721 workers were accepted to the program, with an additional 748 of their dependents brought to the territory, since its inception in 2007. Those numbers initially might not seem high. But considering the Filipino community’s numbers in the Yukon, the program proves to be the most attractive stream towards immigration.
Radio-Canada – Immigration : reprise des discussions entre les États-Unis et Cuba
Les autorités américaines et cubaines ont repris mercredi à Washington leurs discussions sur l’immigration après une interruption de deux ans. La dernière rencontre, qui a eu lieu à La Havane, remontait à janvier 2011. Mercredi, les délégations étaient conduites par Alex Lee, secrétaire d’État adjoint chargé de « l’hémisphère ouest » et Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, responsable des relations avec les États-Unis au ministère cubain des Affaires étrangères. Selon le département d’État, Washington a de nouveau demandé la libération d’Alan Gross, un Américain arrêté fin 2009 et condamné en mars 2001 à 15 ans de prison pour avoir installé des accès Internet pour la communauté juive cubaine dans le cadre d’un programme jugé subversif par La Havane. L’affaire a mis fin au bref réchauffement des relations bilatérales qui a suivi l’arrivée de Barack Obama, en janvier 2009.
Le Figaro – Montréal, ville idéale pour les étudiants étrangers
La ville canadienne arrive en tête d’une étude menée par la revue britannique The Economist [et une banque chinoise]. En terme de formation, de coût, de diversité culturelle et sociale, Montréal est parfaite pour étudier, devant Londres et Hong Kong. […] En tout, 80 villes ont été évaluées sur la qualité de leur enseignement, le marché immobilier local, la diversité culturelle et sociale, l‘insertion professionnelle, le coût de la vie ou encore le taux de criminalité. […] «Montréal occupe la première place, non seulement grâce à des politiques d’immigration accueillantes, mais la ville offre également une riche insertion professionnelle», indique l’étude. […] «Ce qui aide Montréal, entre autres, est le fait que la ville compte quatre universités, dont certaines ont une réputation de calibre mondial», commente André Costopoulos, doyen à la vie étudiante à l’Université McGill pour LaPresse. «Près du quart des 38.000 étudiants inscrits à McGill sont des étudiants étrangers et environ 50% d’entre eux viennent de l’extérieur des États-Unis.
Edmonton Journal – Jason Kenney to Maintain Hold on Ethnic File Despite Move to Jobs Portfolio
Jason Kenney, Canada‘s new Minister of Employment and Social Development, will hang on to the multiculturalism file, Postmedia News has learned. The long-time citizenship and immigration minister got a brand new portfolio Monday focused on jobs and the economy, but senior officials say Tim Uppal, the new minister of state for multiculturalism will report to Kenney, not Chris Alexander, the new minister of immigration whose department he actually falls under. […] According to Kenney’s office, he helped the Conservatives capture 42 per cent of the ethnic vote in the last election and 24 of 25 suburban Toronto ridings. With ethnically diverse Ontario set to get half the 30 new seats being added to the House of Commons before the next election, and millions of new voters coming into the fold given the high levels of immigration over the last number of years, Norquay said he expects all parties will “take ethnic voter outreach very seriously.”
