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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.
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The US is looking to the United Nations for help in dealing with thousands of migrants fleeing to the US to escape violence in Central America. The hope is that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees will set up processing centres for people to apply for resettlement in the region. The centres would be located in several Central American countries. Over 68,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended by US immigration authorities in 2014. Violence and endemic poverty in several Central American countries have been driving migrants north to the US.
Wearing black jackets adorned with a symbol of a Viking and the Finnish flag, the “Soldiers of Odin” have surfaced as self-proclaimed patriots patrolling the streets to protect native Finns from immigrants, worrying the government and police. On the northern fringes of Europe, Finland has little history of welcoming large numbers of refugees, unlike neighbouring Sweden. But as with other European countries, it is now struggling with a huge increase in asylum seekers and the authorities are wary of any anti-immigrant vigilantism.
Although government-organized flights of refugees will continue to land almost daily, the government’s focus is now shifting to how to ensure the newly arrived are settling in as well as they can once those permanent homes are found. “We have now demonstrated an ability to get the machine up and deliver the refugees to Canada,” McCallum said. “The next phase — it won’t be easy, it won’t always be totally smooth — is to welcome all of these individuals to Canada.” […] Ordinarily, refugees are given extensive pre-departure briefings to orient them to life in Canada, covering everything from the weather to bank machines, but those efforts were jettisoned for this program in order to get people here faster.
A researcher at the University of Alberta says that highly skilled second-generation migrants earn less than the general population, despite being more likely to have a university degree. “I call it the ethnic penalty,” said Reza Hasmath, an associate professor in political science who wrote a book on the subject. […] His research found that is not the case for recent migrants, nor for their children who enter the workforce. In an analysis of Statistics Canada numbers Hasmath found that, on average, visible ethnic minorities are more likely to attend university, but tend to earn less.
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) immigration-enforcement activities conducted in B.C. have intensified this year, an analysis of regional department data suggests. CBSA recently supplied the Straight with statistics for the last two fiscal years (which run from April to March) plus the last nine months of 2015. Based on that data, the Straight estimates that CBSA Pacific region officers will have initiated 2,210 immigration investigations by March 31, 2016. That’s up from 1,843 during the previous fiscal year and 2,060 for 2013-14.
http://www.straight.com/news/614931/cbsa-enforcement-against-immigrants-rise-bc