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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
Le message se voulait à la fois sans équivoque et intransigeant. Le ministre de l’immigration australien, Peter Dutton, a averti 7 500 demandeurs d’asile vivant sur le territoire national qu’ils avaient jusqu’au 1er octobre pour déposer une demande formelle de protection, faute de quoi ils seront expulsés, sans possibilité de retour dans le pays.
No matter their academic degrees, training or experience, many immigrants face the same barrier: their credentials don’t count for much on the job market. Now the New Brunswick Multicultural Association has launched a loan program to help newcomers and permanent residents get over that barrier by upgrading their credentials.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/immigrant-credientials-not-recognized-1.4128960
Immigration to Canada’s smallest province is on the rise, and most come from the world’s most populous country — China. According to the PEI government, the province has attracted 2,776 immigrants in the past three years, with Chinese expatriates now forming two per cent of the Island’s population.
A Refugees Welcome dinner was hosted in what’s usually the drivers’ support centre at Uber’s Toronto office. David Ponet, partnership specialist at UNICEF U.S., said the initiative was launched to foster understanding and appreciation between local community members of the host countries and refugees amid growing anti-refugee sentiments around the world.
Salman Abedi, the man suspected of blowing himself up among a crowd exiting an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday, is the latest name on an extremely worrying list of second-generation citizens to violently turn against the countries and the societies their parents worked so hard to join. Security experts say second-generation citizens, because of their feeling of cultural dislocation, are particularly vulnerable to the brand of propaganda produced by IS – and may be being specifically targeted by the jihadi organization as potential recruits.
Refugee lawyers say they are seeing a growing number of deportation cases where a failed refugee claimant is being removed from Canada even if the person has a pending permanent residence application with the spouse, who is granted asylum in a separate claim. “Deportation of the spouse or dependant child of a United Nations Convention refugee is a grave violation of international law,” said Raoul Boulakia of the Refugee Lawyers’ Association of Ontario.