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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.
En 2017, le Canada va accueillir jusqu’à 300.000 nouveaux immigrants, dont 172.500 seront des migrants pour raison économique et 40.000, des réfugiés. C’est ce qu’a récemment annoncé John McCallum, le ministre fédéral de l’Immigration, en soulignant : «Je suis convaincu qu’accueillir autant d’immigrants est la meilleure chose à faire, compte tenu des tendances […].
http://www.lesaffaires.com/blogues/l-economie-en-version-corsee/vive-les-refugies/591329
Le premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban a subi mardi un nouveau revers, après l’invalidation de son référendum, en échouant à faire inscrire dans la Constitution sa politique hostile aux migrants, cible d’une surenchère de l’extrême droite. M. Orban a manqué de deux voix la majorité des deux tiers nécessaire pour faire passer ce texte rendant illégale, en droit hongrois, la relocalisation […].
Coincée à Beyrouth depuis deux ans, Wejdan Jamous, 47 ans, vit seule avec son fils de 2 ans et demi dans un petit studio insalubre. Réfugiée syrienne, elle est parrainée par sa soeur Nahed Jamous, qui l’attend impatiemment à Montréal. Sa demande de résidence a été traitée et acceptée. Pourtant, rien ne bouge.
The proposal would see migrants picked up in the Mediterranean Sea, most of whom set off from conflict-torn Libya, to be sent to Tunisia, Egypt or other north African states to apply for asylum from there. That would be a significant change in migrant policy for Germany which has a relatively generous policy toward asylum seekers fleeing war and strife. Germany welcomed about 890,000 new arrivals last year.
Training her eyes on the Syrian artifacts on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Ghazel Alkak couldn’t help thinking of her now-ruined home near Aleppo. However, the 24-year-old law graduate is grateful and proud to see her culture and heritage preserved at the museum’s Middle East Gallery in Toronto, her new home. […] Only three weeks after her arrival via Turkey under Canada’s Syrian refugee resettlement program, Alkak is already making new friends through the Cultural Exchange and Support Initiative of the U of T Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations department.
The unsettling thing about the emphasis on immigration levels is the indifferent attitude towards the very feature that makes our system unique: one of the shortest paths to citizenship, that over 80 per cent of immigrants eagerly choose to take. At least until recently. […] Evidently, citizenship applications are down. Only 36,000 citizenship applications were received from January to June this year, a little more than one-third of the number for the same period last year, according to data obtained for policy analysis by Andrew Griffith, a retired immigration department director-general. In 2015, a total of 130,000 applications were submitted compared to an average of 200,000 in the previous years.