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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.
Romanian computer-science stars Mircea Pasoi and Cristian Strat turned down jobs at Facebook and Google to build a technology startup in Vancouver. They’re the kind of talented migrants that most countries fall over themselves trying to attract. Their big idea, an algorithm that summarizes the most important news stories in a person’s social network, could be worth millions if properly executed.
The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause: unheralded changes in Mexico that have made staying home more attractive.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/06/world/americas/immigration.html?hp
Some people might presume that many new Canadians are unsafe and accident-prone drivers, dealing as they do with unfamiliar roads and customs, along with extreme weather conditions. But researchers say recent immigrants actually seem to be steadier behind the wheel than long-term residents.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110706/imigrant-drivers-safe-110706/
When a Chinese immigrant visits Brown’s Volkswagen in Charlottetown, general manager Skip Rudderham is prepared: He has interpreters on speed-dial and bilingual business cards. Prince Edward Island, with its reputation of homogeneity and conservatism, may not seem the likeliest province to require such measures, but require them it does: Chinese immigration is transforming the island both culturally and economically. “We would quite literally hire every qualified [Chinese] person we could get our hands on,” said Mr. Rudderham. “Our Chinese clientele is large enough that we could keep this person busy basically dealing with that clientele alone.”
One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led off last October by claiming that multiculturalism “has failed and failed utterly.”
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.4/john_r_bowen_european_multiculturalism_islam.php
Canada Day was an especially significant occasion for a group of 30 people who took the oath of citizenship at Queen’s Park on Friday. The group, who had come to Canada from 27 different countries, became official Canadian citizens in a ceremony held on the lawn of Ontario’s legislature.