UNIVERSIDADES DE EUROPA Y EU VAN A LA “CAZA DE TALENTOS” / NURIT MARTÍNEZ / EL UNIVERSAL
Las más prestigiosas universidades de Estados Unidos, Europa y Asia cambiaron su estrategia en la última década, ahora están directamente enfocadas a la caza de talentos no sólo para continuar su formación en
el posgrado, sino también para contratarlos, revela el estudio de Acceso a la Educación, Participación y Progresión de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE). Asegura que en las últimas tres décadas la presencia de estudiantes en el extranjero se cuadruplicó al pasar de 0.6 millones a 2.7 millones de estudiantes en todo el mundo.
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PIDEN MÁS PAISANOS REFUGIO EN CANADÁ / REFORMA
Las peticiones de refugio de mexicanos en Canadá, aumentaron en 27 por ciento en el primer semestre de 2007 con respecto al mismo periodo de 2006, reportó ayer el diario Star de Toronto. Según el periódico, que citó cifras del Consejo de Inmigración y Refugio (IRB, por sus siglas en inglés), en los primeros seis meses del año la dependencia aceptó estudiar un total de 3 mil 36 solicitudes de refugio de ciudadanos mexicanos.
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CRECE NÚMERO DE MUJERES QUE EMIGRAN A EU / LA JORNADA
El Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (Inmujeres) informó que de 11 millones de mexicanos que han emigrado del país, cinco millones son mujeres y poco más de 8 por ciento de éstas son menores de 15 años. Según la dependencia, las causas por las que cada vez más mujeres -del centro y norte de la República, solas o acompañadas por menores de edad- se van al país vecino son básicamente para buscar mejores ingresos y para reunirse con otro integrante de su familia, mientras las que viven en el sur de México lo hacen por situaciones de pobreza, violencia familiar, conflictos armados y para insertarse en los sectores agrícola, servicios y comercio informal. En su reporte, destaca que si bien la razón para abandonar la nación está claramente identificada, su condición de migrantes incrementa su vulnerabilidad.
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MIGRACIÓN FOMENTA PUEBLOS FANTASMAS / NUEVO EXCELSIOR
Fenómenos como la migración, las sequías, una raquítica economía local y la presencia de catástrofes, son factores para que diversas poblaciones del país se conviertan en verdaderos pueblos fantasma.Esas poblaciones, que son reducto de un pasado -quizás no muy lejano-, y por lo general se encuentran enclavadas en recónditos puntos de la geografía nacional, hoy lucen vacías, desoladas, sin el bullicio de la gente, con construcciones de adobe en ruinas por el paso de los años y nulo mantenimiento.
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VEN INJUSTA LEY CONTRA TAQUERÍAS EN EU / EL UNIVERSAL
Cientos de pequeños empresarios hispanos consideran que la ley estatal que regula la venta ambulante de alimentos, que entrará en vigor próximamente, pondrá en peligro el futuro económico de sus familias. El Congreso de Texas aprobó el pasado mes de mayo el anteproyecto HB 3672, que exige a las taquerías ambulantes en ciudades con una población mayor a los 2.8 millones de personas que acaten ciertas normas sanitarias.
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VIDEOJUEGO PERMITE VIVIR LOS ABUSOS CONTRA MIGRANTES EN EU / TANIA MOLINA RAMIREZ / LA JORNADA
Usted es un adolescente mexicano sin papeles en Estados Unidos. El menor delito, hasta intentar viajar en Metro sin pagar, puede tener consecuencias terribles, como ser separado de su familia y objeto de deportación. Un nuevo videojuego invita a ponerse en los zapatos del otro y atravesar algunas de las situaciones que viven millones de indocumentados en el país vecino.
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PROPONE EL PRI CANDADO PARA EVITAR GRAVAMEN A REMESAS / LA JORNADA
La fracción del PRI en la Cámara de Diputados propuso candados a la iniciativa del impuesto contra la informalidad (ICI), que propuso el Ejecutivo al Congreso, para evitar que las remesas sean gravadas con impuestos indirectos en su cobro o transferencia a instituciones bancarias, que actualmente ya son sujeto de altas comisiones por bancos, casas de cambio y empresas dedicadas al envío de dinero. El Grupo de Trabajo en Materia de Migración del PRI en San Lázaro resaltó que no debe menospreciarse el análisis del Centro de Estudios de Derecho e Investigaciones Parlamentarias de la Cámara de Diputados, que concluyó que la contribución empresarial a tasa única (CETU) y el ICI son inconstitucionales.
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EN JUNIO DE 2007 SE DESACELERAN REMESAS / MILENIO
En junio de 2007 las remesas de migrantes mexicanos disminuyeron con relación al mismo mes de 2006, situación que se había presentado en mayo anterior, de acuerdo con información de Grupo Ixe.
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REMESAS: PREPARARSE PARA EL NUEVO ESCENARIO / MILENIO
En junio de 2001 las remesas enviadas por los paisanos fueron 748 millones de dólares. Cinco años después la cifra se había multiplicado por 2.8 y ascendían a 2 mil 101 millones de billetes verdes.Ese crecimiento espectacular es cosa del pasado. La novedad ahora es que se registra una caída. En junio de 2007, los envíos fueron 2 mil 027 millones de dólares, 3.5 por ciento menores que el mismo mes del año pasado y 7 por ciento menos que en mayo.
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DESCARTAN ANALISTAS QUE CRISIS HIPOTECARIA EN EU AFECTE A MÉXICO / LA JORNADA
Aunque analistas señalan que las empresas de vivienda en México se han contagiado por el nerviosismo en el mercado hipotecario de Estados Unidos, rechazan un impacto en el sector financiero y de la vivienda nacional porque las condiciones de esta industria son distintas. El director de Promoción Bursátil de Monex Casa de Bolsa, Carlos Núñez, dijo que las condiciones del sector vivienda en México son muy particulares porque tiene un desarrollo más fuerte del crédito local, y es una industria creciente.
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CRECIENTE PRESENCIA DE MEXICANOS EN LA COMPRA DE INMUEBLES DE LUJO EN MIAMI / LA JORNADA
Las adquisiciones o participaciones en proyectos inmobiliarios muestran una creciente presencia de mexicanos interesados en invertir en bienes raíces en Miami, Florida.En Eloquence on the Bay, un prestigioso edificio ubicado en North Bay Village, que acaba de ser elegido el ''mejor proyecto nuevo con marina privada'', 20 por ciento de los compradores son del Distrito Federal, San Luis Potosí, León, Celaya y Guadalajara.
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DESAPROVECHA MÉXICO EL TURISMO DE LATINOS QUE VIVEN EN EU / MIRIAM POSADA GARCIA / LA JORNADA
La Asociación Mexicana de Hoteles y Moteles (AMHM) señaló que el 4.9 por ciento de crecimiento del turismo de internación que llega a México por la frontera norte es apenas un freno a la caída de 33 por ciento iniciada desde 1980 por la inseguridad en carreteras, su mal estado, falta de señalamientos, poca promoción turística, conflictos y trámites en el cruce. Aseguró que de los 47 millones de hispanos que viven en Estados Unidos, 50 por ciento se concentra en Texas y California, y durante 2006 tuvieron un poder de compra de 700 mil millones de dólares. Se espera que para 2007 sea de 900 mil millones, pero es un mercado desaprovechado por México.
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MEXICANOS CON ÉXITO EN HOLLYWOOD, 13 CRÓNICAS / MAURICIO DEL OLMO / EL UNIVERSAL
Trece biografías de los personajes más importantes de la cinematografía mexicana actual se presentarán a partir del domingo 12 de agosto por Canal Once. La serie se adentra en la vida de Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Rodrigo Prieto, Adriana Barraza, Guillermo Arriaga y Gael García, entre otros.
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A LESS AMBITIOUS APPROACH TO IMMIGRATION/ ARLEN SPECTER/ THE WASHINGTON POST
The charge of amnesty defeated comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate this summer. It is too important, and there has been too much legislative investment, not to try again. The time to do so is now. Certainly the government should implement the provisions it has already enacted to improve border security and crack down on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. But the important additions on those subjects contained in the bill defeated in June will not be enacted without also dealing with the 12 million-plus undocumented immigrants and the guest worker program.
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STATE IMMIGRATION LAWS ON THE RISE / WALTER F. ROCHE JR./ LOS ANGELES TIMES
The number of new measures has more than doubled compared with last year. Some experts say Washington's inaction has led to the growth. The number of new state laws related to immigration has more than doubled in the first six months of 2007 compared with the same period last year, and some experts are attributing the activism in state capitals to a lack of action in Washington. In a report issued today, the National Conference of State Legislatures said that 171 immigration bills were enacted in the states from Jan. 1 to June 30, compared with 84 such measures in the first six months of 2006. Because some state legislatures are still in session, the report says, the number could grow.
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SURGE IN IMMIGRATION LAWS AROUND U.S. /JULIA PRESTON / THE NEW YORK TIMES
State legislatures, grappling with the failure of the federal government to overhaul the immigration laws, considered 1,404 immigration measures this year and enacted 170 of them, an unprecedented surge in state-level lawmaking on the issue, according to a report by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Spurred by rising resentment in the country over illegal immigration and by the collapse of a broad immigration bill in the Senate in June, state legislators nationwide adopted measures to curb employment of unauthorized immigrants and to make it more difficult for them to obtain state identification documents like driver’s licenses.
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STATES ARE STEPPING INTO U.S. IMMIGRATION-LAW VOID / STEVE LEBLANC / CHICAGO TRIBUNE
State lawmakers are increasingly stepping into the void created by the failure of Congress to approve sweeping changes to immigration policy, a new report finds. Legislatures have passed bills dealing with a range of immigration issues, from employment and health care to driver's licenses and human trafficking -- creating a sometimes uneven patchwork quilt of immigration law across the country. Arkansas approved a law barring state agencies from contracting with businesses that hire illegal immigrants. Louisiana has a new law barring the state from issuing driver's licenses to foreigners until their criminal background has been checked. Oregon made it illegal for anyone other than lawyers to perform immigration consultation work.
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IMMIGRATION LAWS STYMIED / MARK P. COUCH / DENVER POST
A year after state leaders passed hard-line legislation, agencies haven't followed up because of strained resources. Bureaucratic bungling, legislative inaction and a lack of funding have hampered Colorado's efforts to enforce the state's immigration laws. In July 2006, Republican Gov. Bill Owens hauled the legislature into a special session to seek ways to prevent state tax dollars from aiding illegal immigrants.
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IMMIGRANTS ARE 'PERSONS' TOO/ LOS ANGELES TIMES
A judge's ruling against a town's anti-immigrant measures is welcome, but points to ongoing federal failure. Advocates of humane immigration reform cheered, and rightly so, when a federal judge last month told a Pennsylvania city that it couldn't punish employers who hired illegal immigrants or landlords who rented to them. But members of Congress are drawing the wrong lesson from the decision. In a lengthy opinion striking down anti-immigrant ordinances in Hazelton, U.S. District Judge James Munley has given the whole country a refresher course on the Constitution. "We cannot say clearly enough that persons who enter this country without legal authorization are not stripped immediately of all their rights," Munley wrote, citing Supreme Court decisions holding that the 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws to "persons," not just citizens.
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UNHAPPY O.C. PARENTS GOING AFTER SCHOOL TRASTEES/ SEEMA MEHTA /LOS ANGELES TIMES
Recall attempts are moving forward in three districts. Elections officials can't recall a time when so many were occurring simultaneously. School's out for summer, but parents and community members are hard at work trying to oust trustees in three of Orange County's largest school districts. The targets include a conspiracy-minded board member in Orange, a newly appointed Anaheim trustee who once suggested billing Mexico for the schooling of illegal immigrants, and four board members in the Capistrano Unified School District who supported a former superintendent who was indicted this year. These districts are responsible for educating close to 115,000 children — nearly 25% of the public school students in the county — and spend more than $1 billion annually. Though it is often difficult for volunteers to gather enough signatures to put such local matters on the ballot, experts say the notoriety of these trustees makes it likely that voters will be deciding the fate of these board members in coming months.
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U.N. WORKER CHARGED IN IMMIGRATION SCAM / THE NEW YORK TIMES
A United Nations employee was arrested Monday on charges that he and two others used U.N. stationery in a visa fraud scheme, prosecutors said. Vyacheslav Manokhin, a U.N. employee based in Manhattan, was accused of helping numerous non-U.S. citizens enter the country illegally by providing fraudulent documents so they could obtain visas to attend conferences that either did not exist or which they did not attend.
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AGUA PARA SALVAR VIDAS/ JORGE MORALES ALMADA/ LA OPINIÓN
Una organización de voluntarios ayuda a migrantes en el desierto a no morir de sed. Este sol es de un amarillo mortal. Un asesino que seca a sus víctimas, a los migrantes. A cada paso que dan por estos arenosos caminos los va deshidratando. Y quedan chupados. Marchitos. Quemados.Este calor de desierto ataca con furia. De los 232 migrantes muertos que se registraron en los primeros seis meses de este año a lo largo de toda la frontera, alrededor del 70 % fueron por deshidratación. Las altas temperaturas son la causa principal de la tragedia fronteriza.
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SUPERVISORA BUSCA HABLAR A LOS LATINOS/ AGUSTÍN DURÁN/ LA OPINIÓN
Janet Nguyen sabe lo que es no hablar inglés y ‘lo que cuesta venir desde abajo’Si no fuera por el traje ejecutivo y la placa en su escritorio, sería difícil adivinar que la joven inmigrante de agradable sonrisa es una de las mujeres con más poder en uno de los condados más ricos y más conservadores de California. Janet Nguyen, supervisora del Distrito 1 del condado de Orange, representa a 600 mil personas de las cuales más del 50% son de origen latino y aunque ella nació en la antigua Saigón, Vietnam, dice identificarse mucho con la gente que habla español.
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CLERK BLAMES FIRING ON ILLEGALS DEBATE/ VALERIE RICHARDSON/ THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Not only did Bruno Kirchenwitz's U.S. Border Patrol baseball cap help get him fired, it almost got him shot. Mr. Kirchenwitz, 54, was dismissed from his part-time job at 7-Eleven in Basalt after he was threatened by two Hispanic men who are suspected of later pumping five bullets into the store. Mr. Kirchenwitz, who left work less than an hour before the shooting, was terminated by Southland Corp., which owns the 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores, for violating the company's "non-confrontation policy." He contends he was fired for his views on illegal immigration and seeks a lawyer to sue Southland on his behalf.
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IS CORNYN SHIFTING ON FENCE? / WAYNE SLATER / THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Two years ago, Sen. John Cornyn said a border fence was a bad idea. Last month, he voted to build one Critics accused Mr. Cornyn of pandering to his Republican base. The senator said he has been consistent in his goal of securing the border The squabble over the border and illegal immigration is expected to intensify as the first-term senator steps up his re-election campaign next year. The debate underscores a larger political dilemma for the GOP, especially in Texas: Will a hard line on immigration help win elections in the short term but damage the party's prospects of attracting growing numbers of Hispanic voters in the future?
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FATHER OF FALLEN SOLDIER NOW BATTLING DEPORTATION / SUSAN CARROLL / HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The shrine to Pfc. Armando Soriano fills two china cabinets and spills over onto the top of the TV, where he smiles in a framed prom picture. All his life, the eldest son of illegal immigrants from Mexico dreamed of doing big things. Before his vehicle rolled off a road in Iraq, Armando had planned to help his family get out of a run-down apartment
complex on Houston's south side and into a house of their own. The U.S.-born soldier also told his parents he was going to help them become American citizensIn death, Armando partially succeeded
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COURT HEARING STARTS FOR PATROL AGENT CHARGED IN FATAL SHOOTING / ARIZONA REPUBLIC
After nearly a two-month delay, a judge will hear a request from prosecutors for a murder trial for a Border Patrol agent in the fatal shooting of an undocumented Mexican immigrant. Agent Nicholas Corbett is accused of killing Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, on Jan. 12 about a mile north of the Mexican border
near Naco as Dominguez, two brothers and a sister-in-law were entering the country. Last week, Cochise County Justice Court Judge David Morales denied a request by defense lawyers to preclude Dominguez's relatives from testifying
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PINAL DEPUTIES TO GET FEDERAL IMMIGRATION TRAINING / ARIZONA REPUBLIC
The Pinal County Sheriff's office plans to get some of its officers trained in enforcing elements of federal immigration law. While state and local police have generally stayed out of immigration enforcement in the past, an increasing number of agencies nationwide have applied to have their officers trained to make immigration arrests or speed up deportations. Pinal County Sheriff Chris Vasquez said he initially plans to get five deputies and five detention officers trained and will do this periodically until most deputies are trained
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A MEXICAN TOWN'S CLAY 'RESIDENTS'/ JOSE MARIA ALVAREZ/ WASHINGTON POST
For decades, Alejandro Santiago's picturesque home town in southern Mexico has said goodbye to its youth as they left to seek work in the United States. Now the Oaxacan artist is trying to repopulate his town, at least metaphorically. With a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Santiago has undertaken an ambitious plan to create an army of life-size clay figures. (…) Santiago said the inspiration for the project came six years ago, when he returned home after a three-year stay in Paris and was struck by Teococuilco's empty streets. Low wages and an inadequate number of jobs drive thousands of Mexicans to migrate every year to the United States, turning rural communities like Teococuilco into near ghost towns. (….)
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HARD-WORKING PATRIOTS NEED APPLY / BOSTON GLOBE
IT IS exactly the kind of blind acceptance expressed in "Hard workers aren't above the law" (letter, Aug.1) that cultivates prejudice and bigotry. Arguing that the United States should have a sweeping immigration policy that leaves no room for the people who have demonstrated hard work and patriotism is simply asinine. We are a country of people just like the Ladds profiled by Kevin Cullen in "A blight on reason" (City & Region, Page B1), and a sweeping policy provides no "reassuring evidence that at least some of the immigration laws are being enforced." What is reassuring about the government spending time deporting dedicated contributors to American culture and the economy, who pose no threat at all? I have no doubt that a continued characterization of deportations like the Ladd family's as "reassuring" will lead to an irreparable breakdown of American diversity and acceptance.
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THE DOWNSIDE OF DIVERSITY / MICHAEL JONAS / BOSTON GLOBE
A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth? It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same: our differences make us stronger.
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EDUCACIÓN: TEMA PRINCIPAL PARA VOTANTES LATINOS/ MARÍA ELENA SALINAS/ LA OPINIÓN
Miles de jóvenes se preparan para regresar a la escuela este mes. Desafortunadamente, miles más no lo harán. Por cualquier razón que podemos hallar en la larga lista de excusas que los jóvenes dan para abandonar sus estudios, el hecho es que cada año 1.2 millones de jóvenes no se gradúan de la escuela secundaria. La tasa entre los estudiantes latinos es la más alta. La tasa de deserción escolar es considerada el más grave problema educativo para la comunidad latina en Estados Unidos. De hecho, la educación en sí, es más importante para los latinos que otros temas que hacen grandes titulares como Irak, el terrorismo, el cuidado de la salud e incluso la inmigración.
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WORK, THEN PLAY/ DAVID MONTGOMERY/ WASHINGTON POST
Day Laborers at Night, Blurring The Border Between Life and Art Thin and frenetic, banging on his guitar in a Silver Spring union hall, Omar León is like a dream of labor balladeer Joe Hill, singing out in Spanish."¡La voz, la voz, también es un arma,"La voz, la voz, también es un arma!" The voice, the voice also is a weapon! he chants, while a couple hundred day laborers, organizers and allies dance and sing along. (…) Most of the artists decline to disclose their individual immigration status in a newspaper story, even as their art portrays a common lot as hardworking people whose only "crime" was to come seeking work.
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MICHOACÁN, EJEMPLO EN CAPACITACIÓN PARA MIGRANTES / CAMBIO DE MICHOACÁN
Desde el inicio de esta administración se dieron muestras claras de que la educación sería una de las principales metas. El gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas Batel no sólo ha trabajado en ello, sino también se ha mejorado el tipo de instrucción que reciben los migrantes, grupo social desprotegido hasta antes de este sexenio. Hace algunos meses el gobernador viajó a Estados Unidos, allí entregó constancias a los egresados de dicho instituto y señaló
que para su gobierno es muy importante atender a este grupo de la población, los cuales por diversas razones no encontraron las oportunidades adecuadas para incorporarse al sistema escolar formal, ya que sus condiciones de supervivencia y trabajo no le permiten visualizar, la posibilidad de acceso a otros tipos de conocimiento y de servicios educativos.
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ORIENTAN A ‘PAISAS’ PARA EVITAR ABUSOS / FELIPE GALVÁN / LA VOZ DE MICHOACÁN
Debido a que el municipio de Hidalgo es uno de los principales generadores de mano de obra hacia el vecino país del norte, la administración municipal a través del Centro Municipal de Atención al Migrante implementa programa Paisano, así lo infomó Rosalinda Armas, responsable de la oficina.
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EXPORTARÁN PRODUCTORES DE GUAYABA A EU / PERLA VELASCO / IMAGEN (ZACATECAS)
A fin de buscar la expansión de su mercado, la Integradora de Guayaberos El Cañón de Juchipila, que agrupa a ejidatarios y pequeños propietarios, comenzará en poco a tiempo a exportar a Estados Unidos.La calidad de la fruta zacatecana, manifestó Ernesto Tiscareño González, vocero de esta asociación, no tiene comparación con la guayaba que importa la Unión Americana desde Tailandia.“La oportunidad de llevar nuestros productos a otros mercados es real, tenemos una planta de tecnología de punta para pulpas de fruta, la más moderna que hay en México”, dijo Tiscareño.
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ALTO NIVEL DE VIOLENCIA HACIA MUJERES HISPANAS EN EU / AMÉRICA JUÁREZ NAVARRO / CAMBIO DE MICHOACÁN
Alrededor de seis millones de mujeres méxico-americanas son golpeadas por sus novios y esposos cada año, y se estima que cuatro mil de ellas mueren al año a causa de la violencia intrafamiliar, estimó Marta Isabel Guember, jefa del Departamento de Salud del estado de Oregon, quien admitió que en este fenómeno de la violencia doméstica no está exento el sector de migrantes latinas. La especialista en materia de violencia intrafamiliar, apuntó que al igual que en México, mujeres hispanas sufren altos grados de violencia o mueren en manos de sus parejas, ellas, dijo, forman parte de las estadísticas que revelan que al menos cada 18 segundos se registra un acto de violencia doméstica.
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MEXICANS FIND A ROUGH WELCOME MAT IN CANADA/ ALAN FREEMAN& MARINA JIMÉNEZ / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Tourists, being denied entry in increasing numbers, report harsh, insensitive, even racist treatment by Canadian border officials. Claudia Molina used to think Canada was a welcoming place. But that was before the 32-year-old psychology graduate from Mexico City attempted to travel to Vancouver last year. Ms. Molina, who works in the human-resources department of accounting firm KPMG in Mexico City, arrived at Vancouver International Airport in
February of 2006 for a two-week visit with her boyfriend, an English teacher she met when she studied in Vancouver in 2005. But as she came through immigration, she was quickly taken aside, suspected of trying to enter Canada to work illegally, even though she had a return ticket to Mexico and several thousand dollars in cash.
Her luggage was searched and she was hauled off to a detention centre where her coat, shoes and personal effects were taken away. By the next morning, Ms. Molina was back on a plane to Mexico, angry, confused and humiliated. (….)Mauricio Guerrero, a spokesman for the Mexican embassy, said his country recognizes Canada's sovereign right to reject or accept Mexicans intending to visit the country. But he said, "We don't agree with the way those rejected citizens have been treated. Sometimes they are handcuffed. Sometimes they are put in police stations. Once they are rejected, they are not treated properly." Although it will not comment on individual cases, the Canada Border Services Agency denies any charges of discrimination, saying it is "committed to ensuring that all travellers are treated in a fair and equitable manner." (….)
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NEWCOMERS SIDESTEP PITFALLS/ NICHOLAS KEUNG / TORONTO STAR
Months before landing in Toronto in April, Teresita Mariano already had a plan to prepare for Canada's labour market. By June, she had landed a job similar to one she'd had in the Philippines. That was no fluke. The 39-year-old engineer is among the first skilled immigrants to benefit from the Canadian Immigrant Integration Project in Asia, a $4.5 million, three-year pilot program that's Canada's response to all those surgeon-driving-a-taxi tales that have sullied this country's reputation as a good place to resettle.
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BILINGUALISM ON RISE IN QUÉBEC/ JEFF HEINRICH/ THE GAZETTE
Immigrants spur growth. More anglo newcomers, too, study finds Quebec is taking in five times more bilingual French- and English-speaking immigrants than it did a decade ago, according to data compiled by the federal Citizenship and Immigration Department. Belying the impression the province is becoming more and more French, the rising number of bilingual newcomers is actually making Montreal - where most settle - an increasingly bilingual city, an analysis by the Association for Canadian Studies suggests. In a study issued today, the Montreal think tank also found that Quebec - like the rest of Canada - is accepting far fewer immigrants who speak neither official language: 23 per cent of all immigrants in 2006, compared with 43 per cent in 1997, a drop of almost half.
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PARK PICNICS FESTIVE, WARM AND VERY TASTY/ DANIEL DALE / TORONTO STAR
You can bet, 21-year-old Freida Cordoba said at Ashbridge's Bay Park yesterday, that a Filipino park picnic will include a rice cooker. Just as certain: a Toronto summer will include thousands of park picnics, many Asian, African and Middle Eastern. For birthdays and civic holidays and no real reason at all, the city's immigrant families gather – more often, for whatever reason, than long-time Canadians – for get-togethers that are a curious mix of the imported and the adopted.
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