Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Working from a premise that the immigration experience is a serious stressor which can precipitate mental health problems, one must recognize the need for designated funding for proactive mental health prevention, early intervention and treatment services which target some of our community’s most seriously at-risk children and adolescents: recent immigrants. Culturally-specific child and youth mental health services are essential to address the incredible variety of challenges faced by newcomer families.

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/1193976–claire-fainer-immigration-stresses-teens-and-children

The Home Office is working on plans to restrict migration to the United Kingdom if the eurozone crisis deteriorates leading to large numbers of jobs seekers travelling from Europe, the home secretary has said. Theresa May said that “work was ongoing” to restrict immigration if there is a financial collapse, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. She said there was no sign of increased migration, but the government was examining the trends.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/26/home-office-plans-curb-migration?INTCMP=SRCH

Immigrants who live in Nanaimo and hope to become Canadian citizens this summer are in limbo because of restructuring at Citizenship and Immigration Canada. On June 1, the local offices of CIC Canada will be closed in Nanaimo, Prince George, Kelowna and Victoria as part of the federal government’s budget restraints. “The only office that will be left open in the entire province is the one in Vancouver,” said Hilde Schlosser, executive director of the Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society.

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In a major policy shift, Australia lifted restrictions on the use of foreign workers in its resources sector to help address chronic labor shortages, with the Roy Hill iron ore project of the mining magnate Gina Rinehart winning approval Friday to import 1,715 workers. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said the government had approved Ms. Rinehart’s plan to bring in the workers to help develop the 9.5 billion Australian dollar, or $9.2 billion, iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia, an area whose ore exports are relied on by steel mills across East Asia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/business/global/to-help-fill-demand-australia-eases-labor-restrictions-on-foreigners.html

The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) was established in 1957 to provide temporary coverage of medical costs for refugee claimants without financial means while they await qualification for coverage. With the new budget, Citizen and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced that the IFHP will make sweeping cuts to funding which presently supplement health services such as: medications, dentistry, vision care and mobility devices, but also certain medical consultations and procedures that all Canadians, except refugees receive coverage for.

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At a time of global economic gloom, immigrants are flocking to Australia’s mines and oilfields. The Enterprise Migration Agreement (EMA) announced on Friday specifically clears the way for resources companies to use foreign workers to develop major projects as they struggle to find skilled labourers. The EMA allows companies with projects worth more than $2-billion (Australian) to recruit skilled workers from overseas on fixed contracts.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/asian-pacific/australia-to-allow-migrant-workers-in-an-effort-to-ease-mining-labour-shortage/article2443634/