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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.
Austria’s interior minister is doubling the payment for some migrants who voluntarily return to their home countries to 1,000 euros ($1,080.) Wolfgang Sobotka says the added financial incentive is part of plans to repatriate 50,000 migrants who do not qualify for at least temporary residence by 2019.
Despite a worsening backlog and surging number of land-border asylum claims via the U.S., the beleaguered Immigration and Refugee Board will not be getting any relief from the Liberal government. Although the 2017 budget provides $62.9 million over five years — and $11.5 million per year thereafter — for legal aid services for asylum claimants, it ignored a recent plea from IRB chair Mario Dion for additional money to deal with its rising backlog of refugee claims, which is expected to hit 30,000 cases this year.
One out of five foreign workers becomes permanent residents, twice the rate from two decades ago, says a groundbreaking study that examines an immigration system increasingly geared toward temporary migrants. Only nine per cent of temporary foreign workers who came in the mid-1990s successfully obtained permanent resident status, while some 21 per cent of them did by the end of 2014, according to the new Statistics Canada report.
C’est aujourd’hui que le ministre des Finances du Canada, Bill Morneau, présente son budget annuel. Parmi les éléments à surveiller, l’approche en innovation que prône le gouvernement Trudeau depuis le début de son mandat, devrait commencer à prendre des allures plus concrètes, particulièrement en ce qui concerne l’attraction des […].
http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2017/03/22/innovation-rime-avec-immigration-dans-le-budget-canadien-2017/
Starbucks Canada s’est engagée mercredi à embaucher au moins 1000 réfugiés au cours des cinq prochaines années. La chaîne de cafés commencera à recruter activement des candidats par l’entremise de l’organisation nationale Embauche immigrants, qui travaille en collaboration avec un réseau d’agences municipales et provinciales.
“Child refugees are more likely to have higher levels of behavioural or emotional problems, including aggression and other affective disorders,” said a report released by Save the Children last week, titled “A Tide of Self-harm and Depression,” which focused on those stranded on the Greek islands.