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
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Globe and Mail – New Human-Rights Campaign Targets Canadian Practice of Holding Some Asylum Seekers in Jails
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are launching a campaign urging Canadian provinces to cancel arrangements with the federal government that let them detain asylum seekers and refugee claimants in provincial jails. The national campaign, called Welcome to Canada, begins on Thursday with the aim of pressing the provinces into ending the agreements they have with the Canadian Border Services Agency, or CBSA. The arrangements allow thousands of immigration detainees each year to be held in provincial jails without a time limit.
Toronto Star – ‘My Wife Can’t Even Go Out to Get Food’: Afghan Refugees Here Appeal to Ottawa to Expedite Reunification with Their Families as Taliban Threat Escalates
Even before the Taliban took over their country in August, these women were already in hiding with their young children, waiting to join their husbands in refuge in Canada. Now, without a man’s escort, these wives and mothers can’t even leave their homes and move around to take care of themselves and their children. The 170 women and 385 children are stranded in Afghanistan as their bygone family reunification in Canada gets further buried in thousands of new applications amid Ottawa’s Afghan resettlement operation that began this summer.
Global News – Afghan Refugees Settle in Saskatoon After Taliban Takeover, Look Ahead to Life in Canada
Tahery, 24, is adapting to her new life in Saskatoon but also coming to terms with the life and future she and her husband Jawid Sarwary, 28, left behind in Afghanistan. Sarwary said he knew they would have to leave when U.S. President Joe Biden announced in April that American troops were withdrawing completely from the country. Tahery thought the worst-case scenario would be if the Afghan government were to reach a power-sharing deal with the fundamentalist group.
Global News – Volunteers Who Supported Syrian Refugees Reconnecting to Help Afghan Newcomers to Canada
Volunteers who helped Syrian refugees settle in Canada six years ago are coming together once more to help Afghans who’ve recently arrived in the country. Their efforts — which range from securing weather-appropriate clothing to helping the newcomers access medical services — are expected to ramp up as the federal government delivers on its commitment to settle 40,000 Afghan refugees. Wendy Cukier, who previously founded a group to support Syrian refugees, said she was inundated with inquiries as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan this summer.
Global News – At an Islamabad Hotel, Afghans Who Worked for Canada’s Military Await a New Life
A consortium of non-profit groups run by Canadian military veterans said they were in contact with more than 10,000 Afghans who had applied to come to Canada under the federal government’s special immigration program. Since Canada ended evacuation flights in August, the veterans have been able to extract a few hundred of them, but 1,700 remain in Kabul safe houses. “They don’t have a route out at the moment,” said Tim Laidler, who served in Afghanistan and now heads the Veterans Transition Network, one of the groups helping the Afghans.
CBC News – Schools in N.B. Try New Way to Bring Newcomer Students into School Life
For some newcomers to Canada, entering a school is like walking onstage for the first time. And typically, they’re expected to stumble until they learn the rhythm. But this year, schools in New Brunswick are trying to find a better way to integrate newcomer students into school life. The students are offered a so-called prep-year, where they still go to school but have a modified curriculum, where they learn the language and the culture first.
