#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #rapatriement #canada #bloque Oubliés à l’étranger : des Québécois veulent être rapatriés | JDQ
▻https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/06/13/oublies-a-letranger-des-quebecois-veulent-etre-rapatries
#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #rapatriement #canada #bloque Oubliés à l’étranger : des Québécois veulent être rapatriés | JDQ
▻https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/06/13/oublies-a-letranger-des-quebecois-veulent-etre-rapatries
Le Canada doit en faire plus pour les travailleurs étrangers temporaires – RCI | Français
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#travail#agriculture
▻https://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2020/06/11/le-canada-admet-devoir-faire-plus-pour-les-travailleurs-etrangers-temporaires
Lundi, la Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) du Canada a présenté Unheeded Warnings – COVID-19 & Migrant Workers in Canada qui rapporte des plaintes au nom de plus d’un millier de travailleurs migrants et de leurs organisations qui, selon l’alliance, n’ont pas été entendues par les autorités fédérales et provinciales et les consulats à temps pour la COVID-19.
Toronto : manifestation en soutien aux travailleurs migrants | Coronavirus : Ontario | Radio-Canada.ca
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#travail#agriculture
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1711882/manifestation-travailleurs-migrants
Une quarantaine de véhicules ont pris la route de Toronto en direction de St. Catharines samedi après-midi pour demander des améliorations aux conditions des travailleurs migrants en Ontario.
Immigration bracing for post-COVID-19 rush | Toronto.com
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#politiquemigratoire
▻https://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story/10020616-immigration-bracing-for-post-covid-19-rush
OTTAWA — A complete overhaul of how Canada processes immigration applications is in the works as the government braces for post-pandemic demand for migration to Canada.
Pour celles et ceux qui s’intéressent à l’histoire de la #colonisation du #Canada et à l’oppression des populations #autochtones, ce #documentaire retrace un épisode méconnu de cette histoire et, malgré quelques longueurs, il mérite d’être vu, d’autant que c’est gratuit jusqu’au 30 juin !
#The_Pass_System (#Alex_Williams / Canadá / 2015 / 51 ’ / English)
▻https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thepasssystemfilm
Code : justice
For over 60 years, the Canadian government illegally denied many Indigenous peoples of the prairies the basic freedom to leave reserves, and forced them to carry a pass when they did so. Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Ojibwe and Blackfoot Elders tell their stories of living under and resisting the system, and link their experiences to today. Legendary actor Tantoo Cardinal narrates this investigative look into a little-known Canada.
Ottawa prêt à régulariser les demandeurs d’asile travaillant dans le système de santé | Coronavirus | Radio-Canada.ca
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1710426/immigration-asile-trudeau-anges-gardiens-chsld-quebec-legault-prepo
L’accès au programme, défini dans ce document comme une « politique publique pour accorder la résidence permanente », se veut pour le moment assez large. Il ne se limitera pas aux seuls travailleurs des centres d’hébergement et de soins de longue durée (CHSLD). Tous ceux qui ont œuvré durant cette pandémie dans le domaine de la santé, les hôpitaux par exemple, pourront en bénéficier. On parlerait notamment des préposés aux bénéficiaires et à l’entretien ménager, mais aussi des agents de sécurité ou d’autres employés du milieu de la santé. Ottawa veut faire preuve d’ouverture et de cohérence à travers le pays, glisse une source proche du dossier. En revanche, les demandeurs d’asile qui ont travaillé dans d’autres secteurs, même si ces emplois étaient jugés essentiels durant cette crise, n’y auront pas accès, tout comme ceux dont la demande d’asile a été jugée irrecevable.
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#personnelsoignant#sante#canada#regularisation#demandeurdasile
Calling migrant workers’ deaths ‘avoidable,’ group launches COVID-19 website | TheIFP.ca
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#travail#agriculture#protection
▻https://www.ourwindsor.ca/news-story/10019002-calling-migrant-workers-deaths-avoidable-group-launches-covid-19
As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada, Wilfrid Laurier University professor Janet McLaughlin knew it was just a matter of time before migrant farm workers would be hit by the coronavirus.
She and other colleagues, who all take an interest in migrants’ health and well being, raised alarms with federal and provincial officials about the prevention of potential outbreaks in workers’ cramped bunkers.
Mort d’un deuxième travailleur étranger à cause de la COVID au Canada – RCI | Français
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#travail#agriculture#deces
▻https://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2020/06/08/mort-dun-deuxieme-travailleur-etranger-a-cause-de-la-covid-au-canada
Le jeune homme de 24 ans est décédé vendredi à l’hôpital régional de Windsor, au sud-ouest de la province de l’Ontario. Le travailleur agricole d’origine mexicaine s’était rendu à l’hôpital Erie Shores le 1er juin 2020 pour la première fois après avoir passé quelques jours dans un hôtel où il s’était isolé.
Agriculture : des travailleurs migrants témoignent de leurs expériences dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Ontario | Coronavirus : Ontario | Radio-Canada.ca
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#travail#agriculture
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1709727/coronavirus-agriculture-ontario-travailleurs-migrants
Alors que l’organisme Migrant Workers Alliance for Change a publié lundi un rapport sur les conditions de vie déplorables au Canada dans les exploitations agricoles, Radio-Canada a recueilli le témoignage de travailleurs étrangers employés dans le Sud-Ouest de l’Ontario en pleine pandémie de COVID-19.
Mort d’un travailleur agricole : une campagne de financement pour rapatrier son corps | Coronavirus : Ontario | Radio-Canada.ca
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#canada#travail#agriculture#deces#rapatriement
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1710143/travailleur-migrant-covid-agriculture-windsor
Une campagne de sociofinancement pour rapatrier le corps du travailleur migrant Rogelio Muñoz Santos, mort à 24 ans de la COVID-19 dans la région de Windsor-Essex vendredi dernier, a été lancée dimanche.
Et si la pandémie donnait un nouvel élan aux régions ? | Radio-Canada.ca
#Covid-19#migrant#migrationinterne#Canada#installation
▻https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1707571/regions-est-quebec-jeunes-migration-pandemie-covid-emploi
Grands espaces pour favoriser la distanciation physique, faible nombre de cas de COVID-19, confinement au grand air, agriculture de proximité... les avantages que procurent les régions comme la nôtre dans le contexte actuel sont indéniables. Alors que la menace d’une deuxième vague de contagion persiste, la pandémie pourrait-elle donner un nouvel élan aux régions ?
Reassessing Canada’s refugee policy in the COVID-19 era
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Canada#asile#politique_migratoire
▻https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2020/reassessing-canadas-refugee-policy-in-the-covid-19-era
Policy-makers must anticipate receiving people who are fleeing pandemic situations, and make sure immigration bureaucracy can keep up.
Revive millionaire migration to cure Canada’s coronavirus economic woes, say advocates | South China Morning Post
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Canada#politique_migratoire
►https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3087449/revive-millionaire-migration-cure-canadas-covid-19-economic-woes-say-advocates
Chinese-dominated investor migration schemes were terminated or paused amid heavy criticism, but supporters are lobbying for their resurrection
The Investment Industry Association of Canada wants the federal investor programme restarted, but a professor who studied it called it a ‘dismal failure’
Revive millionaire migration to cure Canada’s coronavirus economic woes, say advocates | South China Morning Post
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Chine#HongKong#immigration#Canada#investissement
►https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3087449/revive-millionaire-migration-cure-canadas-covid-19-economic-woes-say-advocates
Les syndicats du Canada demandent au gouvernement canadien de lutter pour que cesse l’annexion des terres palestiniennes
CTC, le 2 juin 2020
▻https://congresdutravail.ca/syndicats-du-canada-demandent-gouvernement-canadien-de-lutter-lanne
Newcomer program looks at post-pandemic environment | Mirage News
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Canada#politique-Migratoire
▻https://www.miragenews.com/newcomer-program-looks-at-post-pandemic-environment
New federal funding will help a Western-led program continue exploring welcoming environments for newcomers, even as Canada’s attitudes toward new immigrants will surely be tested by the economic and social uncertainty of a post-pandemic world.
La Covid-19 creuse les inégalités d’aujourd’hui, mais aussi celles de demain
Estelle Carde, The Conversation, le 27 mai 2020
▻https://theconversation.com/la-covid-19-creuse-les-inegalites-daujourdhui-mais-aussi-celles-de-
Des voix s’élèvent pour demander, à raison, que les statistiques de la pandémie recueillent les caractéristiques socio-économiques et raciales des victimes afin de rendre visibles ces inégalités. Toutefois, si ces statistiques sont nécessaires, elles ne permettront pas de dresser un portrait complet des inégalités face à la Covid-19.
C’est habituellement pendant les mois d’été que les enfants des milieux socio-économiques favorisés distancent les autres dans l’acquisition de compétences scolaires et il ne fait guère de doute que ce printemps de pandémie leur donne une bonne longueur d’avance. Or l’éducation est un déterminant majeur de la santé, à court, mais aussi à long terme : les inégalités scolaires entre les enfants d’aujourd’hui sont le terreau des inégalités de santé entre les adultes de demain.
#coronavirus #inégalités #Canada
Voir compile des effets délétères indirects de la pandémie :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/832147
Despite COVID 19 - Canada needs Immigrants | ZAWYA MENA Edition
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Canada#travail
▻https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/press-releases/story/Despite_COVID_19__Canada_needs_Immigrants-ZAWYA20200528121506
Vazir Group reveals a rise in immigrant interest as Canadian Immigration Minister emphasizes on the importance of immigration to the Country post COVID 19
COVID-19: Canada, Australia taking different tacks on immigration | The Province
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Australie#Canada#politique_migratoire
▻https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-canada-australia-take-different-tacks-on-immigration-amid
OPINION: Politicians in Australia and Canada used to be similar on immigration policy. Now they’re taking near-opposite approaches in the devastating wake of COVID-19.
Agriculture locale : « les Québécois ne veulent plus travailler dans les champs » - Sputnik France
#Covid19#Canada#travail#migrant#migration#agriculture
▻https://fr.sputniknews.com/canada/202005221043827810-agriculture-locale-les-quebecois-ne-veulent-plus-
Avec le Covid-19, l’autonomie alimentaire est redevenue un thème d’actualité au Québec. Toutefois, l’agriculture locale dépend encore de travailleurs saisonniers migrants, qui continuent d’affluer pour les récoltes. Selon certains témoignages, il faudrait huit travailleurs québécois pour remplacer un seul travailleur mexicain. Mythe ou réalité ?
Calls grow for asylum seekers working on COVID-19 front lines to be allowed to stay in Canada
Legault’s CAQ voted against motion to ask #Ottawa to ’regularize status’ of those with rejected refugee claims.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the crucial role asylum seekers and others with precarious status play in Quebec’s economy.
They work long hours in meat-packing plants and warehouses, or tending to elderly people in long-term care homes — low-paying jobs that are difficult to fill.
But they may not be able to stay in Canada when deportations, which have nearly ground to a halt during the COVID-19 crisis, resume.
There are growing calls, however, from community organizers, advocates and opposition politicians in both Quebec and Ottawa for that to change.
“What we realize more and more is that those failed claimants are working in essential services most of the time,” said Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, the president of Quebec’s association of immigration lawyers.
About 30,000 asylum seekers who crossed into Canada between 2017 and December 2019 are still waiting for their refugee claims to be heard, according to the latest figures from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Others whose claims have been rejected have applied for permanent residency on humanitarian grounds.
That process takes an average of 30 months, Cliche-Rivard said.
In the meantime, they are working.
While the province says it has no record of the total number of asylum seekers doing work in, for example, long-term care homes, Marjorie Villefranche, executive director of Maison d’Haiti, estimates that about 1,200 of the 5,000 Haitian asylum seekers the organization has helped since 2017 have become orderlies.
Cliche-Rivard said the federal government should set up a program that speeds up the application process for permanent residency, and formally takes into account the contributions claimants have made to fast-track their application.
Doing so would offer “clear recognition of what those people have been doing for the province and for the country,” he said.
NDP wants a ’special program’
The federal NDP is also calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to create a special program granting permanent residency to those working on the front lines.
“They are risking their lives to support others in the face of the pandemic,” said Jenny Kwan, the party’s immigration critic and the MP for Vancouver East.
Her party has tabled a petition on behalf of a Montreal community group that calls on Trudeau to, “show leadership by implementing a special program to regularize the status of asylum seekers working to fight COVID-19, and therefore supporting the health and safety of all Canadians, for humanitarian reasons.”
Federal Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino has given no indication the government plans to change the way it processes applications or make any exceptions.
But he said in a statement that, “all eligible asylum claimants receive a full and fair hearing on the individual merits of their claim.”
Legault’s party votes down proposal
Peter Kent, the federal Conservative immigration critic, suggested that Quebec, which has jurisdiction over immigration when it comes to economic applicants, “could move to accept these people as permanent residents” given the “extraordinary circumstances.”
It’s not clear if Quebec would have the power to do that — or if Premier François Legault’s government, which cut immigration levels in its first year in office, would be willing to if it could.
Last week, on the National Assembly’s first day back in session, independent MNA Catherine Fournier tabled a motion to recognize the contribution of “hundreds of asylum seekers, mostly of Haitian origin,” working in long-term care homes.
She said the province should ask Ottawa to, “quickly regularize their status, in order to recognize the work accomplished during the current health crisis.”
Quebec’s three opposition parties — the Liberals, Québec Solidaire and the Parti Québécois — voted in favour of the motion, but Legault’s majority Coalition Avenir Québec voted it down.
When asked why, Legault avoided answering directly, saying instead he didn’t want the border to reopen to asylum seekers any time soon.
“That doesn’t mean that asylum seekers, including members of the Haitian community — that there aren’t good people who work in our long-term care homes,” Legault said Friday.
Frantz Benjamin, the Liberal MNA for Viau, which includes Montréal-Nord, said Legault’s response was shocking.
“It was not based on the question asked by the journalist,” Benjamin, who was born in Haiti, said Tuesday.
“Those people that we call ’guardian angels,’ we need them. We have to recognize the work of those people, most of them women.”
’Let’s walk together’
Over the weekend, a group of activists, artists and social entrepreneurs released a video paying tribute to asylum seekers in essential jobs.
The video came out Monday, on Haiti’s National Flag Day, which fell on the same day as Journée des Patriotes in Quebec this year.
“Both celebrations are about liberation movements,” said Fabrice Vil, a Montrealer of Haitian background and the founder of Pour3Points, an organization that trains sports coaches to help support kids struggling at school and at home.
He helped produce the video, called Je me souviendrai - Marchons Unis — a play on Quebec’s official motto, “I remember,” followed by, “Let’s walk together.”
The song in the video is set to the melody of La Dessalinienne, Haiti’s national anthem.
“The current pandemic is really showing that we all depend on each other — and that there are people that sometimes we don’t see as being relevant to our own lives who are currently sacrificing their own lives to support the collectivity,” Vil said.
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-asylum-seekers-1.5575905?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
#déboutés #travail #réfugiés #asile #migrations #régularisation #covid-19 #coronavirus #Canada
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Farmers increasingly desperate as Canada struggles to attract migrant workers
▻https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/migrant-friendly-canada-struggles-to-attract-migrant-farm-st
Ottawa looks to give permanent residency to asylum seekers who work in health care
Program, still needing cabinet approval, would extend to some security guards.
The federal government is working on a special program that would grant permanent residency to asylum seekers who have worked in health-care roles during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The temporary measure is expected to cover all the regions of the country. It’s unclear how many asylum seekers would benefit, but most would likely be in Quebec.
The proposed program, details of which were obtained by Radio-Canada, would extend beyond those who worked in long-term care homes, known in Quebec as CHSLDs, to all asylum seekers who have been working in the health system, including security guards.
It would not, however, apply to asylum seekers who worked in other sectors — even jobs deemed essential during the pandemic.
Radio-Canada obtained a copy of a presentation on the proposal given by Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino late Tuesday to the cabinet committee on COVID-19.
Economic Development Minister Mélanie Joly, Liberal MP for Montreal’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville riding, said Wednesday on Radio-Canada’s Tout un matin the program had still not been approved by the cabinet committee.
She declined to provide details about the proposal, saying only it was important to recognize the contribution of those working on the front lines.
Discussions still going on
In recent days, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada, Quebec and Ottawa have held meetings about the plan, but have not yet reached an agreement.
“We are at work. Discussions are continuing with the federal government, since asylum seekers are currently a federal process,” Marc-André Gosselin, a spokesperson for Quebec’s Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, said Tuesday evening.
Late last month, in the face of public pressure, Quebec Premier François Legault said he would have Jolin-Barrette look at the situation, on a case-by-case basis, as a way of saying “thank you.”
But he stressed, at the time, that his government would also have discussions with the federal government, which is responsible for refugee applications.
Calls for recognition
There have been growing calls to recognize the contribution of asylum seekers who have served as “guardian angels” during the pandemic.
Since 2017, tens of thousands of people have crossed into Canada from the U.S. at Roxham Road, which leads into Quebec.
Advocates raised concern they may not be able to stay in Canada when deportations, which have nearly ground to a halt during the COVID-19 crisis, resume.
Shelove Jean-Charles, who is originally from Haiti and crossed at Roxham Road, has been working at a CHSLD since January.
She said she was “touched” by the possibility a program could be in the works that could change her fate.
She is hopeful she will be able to stay in Quebec and eventually become a nurse.
Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, the president of Quebec’s association of immigration lawyers, estimated several thousand people could stand to benefit from such a program.
“It’s a pretty broad definition,” he said, estimating that it could affect several thousand people.
“I think it’s absolutely fantastic. They listened to us very much. There was a big movement from the population and from society.”
▻https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ottawa-quebec-asylum-seekers-1.5599660
#Canada : Des travailleurs étrangers contraints de travailler jusqu’à 18 heures d’affilée
Ottawa maintient que la frontière restera fermée malgré le doute semé par Trump
#Covid-19#Canada#US#frontiere#migrant#migration
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/202005/19/01-5274127-ottawa-maintient-que-la-frontiere-restera-fermee-malgre-le-doute
(Ottawa) La frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis ne rouvrira pas avant le 21 juin, a annoncé Justin Trudeau mardi matin à Ottawa. Mais peu après, au sud de la frontière, Donald Trump signalait qu’elle pourrait rouvrir avant cela.
Exil : Les médecins réfugiés veulent apporter leur contribution
►http://www.elmoudjahid.com/fr/actualites/153618
es réfugiés et immigrants détenteurs de diplômes de médecins veulent que leurs qualifications soient reconnues afin de pouvoir sauver des vies et lutter contre la pandémie, a indiqué lundi l’agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR). Alors que la pandémie continue de se propager et de faire des victimes dans le monde entier, New York est l’un des six Etats américains à faciliter l’accès des réfugiés, des immigrants et des migrants formés à l’étranger à la pratique de la médecine au moins pendant la crise. « Nous faisons maintenant pression pour que les progrès soient permanents », a déclaré Esther Benjamin, PDG et directrice exécutive de World Education Services, une organisation à but non lucratif de New York qui aide les étudiants internationaux et les immigrants à mettre leur formation et leurs compétences à profit aux Etats-Unis et au Canada. Face aux pénuries potentielles de personnel médical, plusieurs pays dans le monde ont mis en œuvre des mesures similaires. Parmi eux figurent le Pérou, le Chili et l’Argentine qui ont récemment commencé à autoriser des médecins, des infirmières et d’autres personnes ayant une formation médicale à travailler dans le cadre des efforts de prévention et de lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19.
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#réfugiés#personnel-santé#EtatsUnis#Canada#argentine#Chili#Pérou#système-santé#formation #médecin#santé
A children’s crisis in the refugee camps of Syria- ABC.net
The worn-torn country of Syria has reported a very small number of COVID-19 cases – just 47 according National Public Radio in the US.
But the coronavirus crisis has focused attention on a potential disaster in the vast Al Hol refugee camp in the country’s north.
The international aid group Save The Children released a report this week calling on western governments to bring home 7000 children – including 47 Australians – who were taken to Syria by their parents.
#Covid-19#Canada#Syrie#rapatriement#Enfant#camp#Al-Hol#UN#DAESH#migrant#migration
▻https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/a-childrens-crisis-in-the-refugee-camps-of-syria/12235006
UN urges Canada to repatriate orphaned girl held in Syrian camp - CTV News
A panel of UN human rights experts is calling on the Canadian government to urgently repatriate a five-year-old orphaned girl being held in a crowded Syrian camp, noting Canada has the ‘primary responsibility’ for ensuring the girl’s human rights.
In a statement issued Wednesday, UN experts noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new urgency to the matter, citing inhuman and crowded living conditions in the al-Hol refugee camp where thousands of other ISIS family members are being held.
#Covid-19#Canada#Syrie#rapatriement#Enfant#camp#Al-Hol#UN#DAESH#migrant#migration
▻https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/un-urges-canada-to-repatriate-orphaned-girl-held-in-syrian-camp-1.4947728