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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.
Radio-Canada – Le nombre d’immigrants familiaux et économiques en hausse au Canada
De nouvelles données statistiques démontrent une augmentation de l’immigration familiale au pays, l’an dernier. Selon Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada, un peu moins de 65 000 personnes commanditées par des membres de leur famille sont arrivées au pays en 2012. Il s’agit d’une augmentation de 15 % par rapport aux totaux de 2011, qui étaient les plus faibles depuis cinq ans. Les immigrants économiques ont également été 2,9 % plus nombreux que l’année précédente; 160 000 d’entre eux se sont ainsi installés ici. L’immigration au Canada est en hausse depuis 2006, avec l’atteinte, en 2010, d’un sommet de plus de 280 000 résidents permanents. Selon le ministère, un peu plus de 257 000 nouveaux résidents permanents sont arrivés au pays en 2012, soit environ 9000 de plus qu’en 2011. Les données étoffées sur l’immigration devraient être publiées mercredi.
Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada – Communiqué — Le Canada a accueilli un nombre record d’étudiants étrangers en 2012
Le Canada a attiré un nombre record d’étudiants étrangers en 2012, a annoncé aujourd’hui le ministre de la Citoyenneté, de l’Immigration et du Multiculturalisme, Jason Kenney. En effet, pour la première fois de son histoire, le Canada a accueilli l’année dernière plus de 100 000 étudiants étrangers, soit une augmentation de 60 % depuis 2004. D’après un rapport publié en 2011 par le ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce international, intitulé L’éducation internationale : un moteur‑clé de la prospérité future du Canada, les étudiants étrangers injectent plus de 8 milliards de dollars par année dans l’économie canadienne.
Winnipeg Free Press – Napolitano Warns Looming U.S. Spending Cuts Will Cause Border Woes for Canada
Janet Napolitano, the Obama administration’s homeland security chief, warned Tuesday that the looming array of U.S. spending cuts known as sequestration will cause pain for Canadians, in particular at the busy Canada-U.S. border. […] Already the impact of sequestration was being felt in the United States. The country’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement — an agency that’s part of Napolitano’s department — announced Tuesday it had released hundreds of detained illegal immigrants who were being held pending deportation in order to cut costs.
Edmonton Journal – As Israel Quietly Returns Migrants to Sudan, Rights Groups Worry for Their Safety
Israel has quietly repatriated hundreds of Sudanese migrants in recent months, drawing accusations from rights groups that it has coerced the Africans into potentially life-threatening situations and possibly violated international norms for treating refugees. Israel says the departures have been voluntary, but they follow mass arrests of migrants and vows by Israeli leaders to halt the influx. Over the past eight years, as many as 60,000 African migrants, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean, have sneaked across Israel’s border with Egypt’s lawless Sinai desert, some fleeing repressive regimes and others looking for work and better conditions.
Winnipeg Free Press – Gay Ugandan Man Seeks Safe Haven in Manitoba
Peter can’t get a job or housing in Uganda because of his sexual orientation. Because he’s been outed and in danger of being seen during daylight hours, the university-educated man must wait until dark before he leaves the place in Kampala Canadian donors have paid for. […] Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people can be punished in as many as 78 countries with imprisonment, sometimes life imprisonment, or public torture by their government, Reaching Out Winnipeg says. Peter contacted Reaching Out Winnipeg as a last resort. […] A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration said Monday he needed more time and information to look into Peter’s case.
Globe and Mail – Canada Still Has Much to Learn from None is Too Many
Why Canada had arguably the worst record of any Western country in trying to save the doomed Jews of Europe is the subject of None Is Too Many, a book written 30 years ago by Harold Troper and me, and just reissued by the University of Toronto Press. […] Today’s Canada is far different – generous, open, decent, humane. Multiculturalism is now an integral part of Canadian policy and diversity is encouraged. Yet at a moment when intolerance seems to be the global growth industry of the new century, the lessons of None Is Too Many should not be ignored. Immigration and refugee policies still divide Canadians. There remain significant pockets of discrimination and racism.
