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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.
Après Moncton, c’est maintenant Fredericton qui demande à Ottawa de ralentir la cadence concernant l’accueil de réfugiés syriens. La ville et l’association culturelle font des pieds et des mains pour aider les familles de réfugiés, mais les besoins sont nombreux. Il manque de logements, de vêtements, de meubles et de produits pour enfants.
The European Union aims to rehouse thousands of asylum-seekers from Greece in the coming months, officials said on Thursday as EU ministers wrestled with concerns about the legality of a new plan to force migrants back to Turkey.
The Richmond School District is reporting an eighth straight year of growth for its international student program, which now accounts for nearly one in 20 full-time students. This school year set a new annual record for growth since the program began in 2002, as the district added 175 more non-residents to its classrooms, according to a report to the Richmond School Board on Monday.
http://www.richmond-news.com/news/international-students-ballooning-in-richmond-1.2196290
Thirteen. As of this week that’s the number of people detained by the Canada Border Services Agency who have died in custody since 2000. It’s a disturbing total, and it’s made worse by the fact that their names, the circumstances of their deaths and why they were being detained are kept secret by the agency. It’s as if they didn’t exist. This should not be allowed in a supposedly open, accountable, caring democracy. So it’s no surprise that the announcement of the most recent death has led to yet another round of calls by human rights advocates for more transparency within the agency, the creation of an oversight body to hold it to account, and the establishment of an outside body to investigate deaths in custody.
About 14,000 people are stranded on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia, and authorities hope to start relocating most of them from an overcrowded refugee camp there in the coming weeks. Tensions are running so high at the camp near the Greek village of Idomeni that fights over food broke out Friday as aid organizations distributed the supplies, leaving some people bloodied and limping.
While the subject is not new in other parts of the world, Environmental Migration to Canada, a joint project between Laurier and the University of Ottawa, is the first in Canada to examine the impact of global climate change and environment pollution on Canadian immigration. Unlike Europe and the United States, Canada has been somewhat buffered from the direct results of environmental migration driven by natural disasters because of its geographical boundaries.