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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.
Des réfugiés syriens établis dans la région de Fredericton sont devenus apprentis fermiers cet été : 12 hectares de terres agricoles à Keswick Ridge leur ont été offerts pour qu’ils puissent exercer leur pouce vert et, dans le même temps, garnir leur garde-manger. Certains ne partaient pas de rien : ils étaient agriculteurs chez eux avant d’émigrer au Canada […].
Des chercheurs en droits de la personne soutiennent que la détention préventive d’enfants migrants à leur arrivée au Canada laisse des traces à long terme sur des personnes déjà vulnérables. Le Canada détient chaque année des centaines d’enfants, certains provenant de régions ravagées par la guerre, comme la Syrie.
Canada regularly detains hundreds of children who have run afoul of the country’s immigration laws – including some who are held in correctional facilities and even in solitary confinement, according to a new report calling for sweeping reforms to the practice. Between 2010 and 2014, an average of 242 children were detained across Canada over immigration violations, according to the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto.
Au moins 42 migrants sont morts et 150 ont été secourus, mercredi 21 septembre, à la suite du naufrage d’un navire en Méditerranée près des côtes égyptiennes, selon deux responsables du ministère de la santé égyptien. Les opérations de sauvetage sont toujours en cours. Cinq personnes ont par ailleurs été blessées, a fait savoir le porte-parole du ministère de la santé, Khaled Megahed.
Hungarian prison inmates are ramping up their production of razor wire, working around the clock as Hungary prepares to build a second fence on the border with Serbia to keep out refugees and other migrants. […] Human rights organizations consider Hungary’s fences erected last year as the first step in efforts by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to dismantle the country’s asylum system. Hungary’s Helsinki Committee says the fence, the closure of asylum centres and other measures are destroying the asylum system.
Overlooked in the refugee numbers game is that, after achieving its initial target of 25,000 refugees admitted by the end of February, the government left thousands of privately sponsored Syrian families in the lurch. These families have already been matched with sponsorship groups eager to support them. Yet they languish in refugee camps or in limbo elsewhere while awaiting completion of the paperwork that would allow them to come to Canada. Canada4Refugees, an organization that represents sponsorship groups, estimates there are at least 7,500 families in this situation.