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.
Montreal Gazette – Haiti: Memories Haunt Quake Survivors
Quebec has welcomed 2,600 Haitians under a humanitarian program for earthquake victims – with another 3,400 still expected to arrive. But for many, the transition has been hard. Finding jobs and housing and adapting to a new culture and climate have posed unexpected challenges. And even far from their ravaged homeland, many of the traumatized newcomers are haunted by recurring memories.
Mitt Romney, who used to try to sound like a moderate on immigration, has dropped the pretense. On Wednesday, he proudly accepted the endorsement of the anti-immigrant activist Kris Kobach, architect of the nation’s most radical immigration crackdowns, including the unconstitutional show-your-papers laws in Arizona and Alabama.
The New York Times – The Next Immigration Challenge
The immigration crisis that has roiled American politics for decades has faded into history. Illegal immigration is shrinking to a trickle, if that, and will likely never return to the peak levels of 2000. Just as important, immigrants who arrived in the 1990s and settled here are assimilating in remarkable and unexpected ways. Taken together, these developments, and the demographic future they foreshadow, require bold changes in our approach to both legal and illegal immigration.
The Globe and Mail – Tories Tout Progress with Deportation Most-Wanted List
The federal government has […] added 30 new profiles of individuals to the wanted list by the Canadian Border Services Agency and added new categories for inadmissibility on the grounds of security risk, organized criminality and individuals convicted or wanted for serious crimes in other countries. […] But the publication of this list has been criticized by Amnesty International Canada and some immigration lawyers, such as Lorne Waldman.
The familiar poise and self-confidence of Adrienne Clarkson comes to the fore in her up-beat new book, Room For All of Us, a salute to the successes of Canada’s immigration system. The former Governor-General, who served from 1999 through 2005, herself an immigrant who shared in the country’s multicultural transformation, is a frontline advocate for open borders.
Vancouver Sun – Why is Vancouver so Bad for Immigrants’ Health?
This bad news about Metro was buried in a recent report from Statistics Canada, which surveyed 7,000 immigrants and found roughly one in 10 report poor health four years after most arrive in decent shape. A close examination of a StatsCan chart […] revealed that men who immigrate to Vancouver are twice as likely to report poor health compared to males who choose Toronto. Female immigrants are 1.5 times more inclined to struggle with their health in Vancouver compared to women who end up in Ontario’s largest city.
