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Friday, December 14, 2012

[EU, Middle East, Africa] OECD - Settling In: OECD Indicators of Immigrant Integration 2012


12/2012. This publication highlights how immigrants and their children are integrating into OECD societies, judging their progress against key indicators. Many areas are considered (material living conditions, health, education, labour market, civic engagement) as integration is a multi-dimensional issue. Measures of outcomes, as well as of progress made over the past decade, are presented in comparison with outcomes of a reference group (the population born in the country of residence).

Three series of questions are addressed: 1) To what extent does the average performance of immigrants differ from that of the native-born?; 2) Can these differences be explained by structural effects (different distributions by age, educational level, etc.)?; 3) How has integration record evolved over the past decade?

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12/2012. Cette publication décrit comment les immigrés et leurs enfants s'insèrent dans les sociétés des pays de l’OCDE, et évalue leurs progrès par rapport à des indicateurs clés. L’intégration étant un défi à caractère multidimensionnel, plusieurs facteurs (les conditions de vie matérielle, la santé, l’éducation, le marché du travail, la participation civique ) sont pris en compte. Ce rapport compare les mesures des résultats ainsi que les progrès réalisés au cours de la dernière décennie aux résultats d’un groupe de référence (la population née dans le pays de résidence).

Trois séries de questions sont abordées : 1) dans quelle mesure la performance moyenne des immigrés diffère-t-elle de celle de la population née dans le pays hôte ? ;  2) Ces différences peuvent-elles être expliquées par des effets structurels (différentes répartitions selon l'âge, niveau d'éducation , etc) ? ; Comment l’intégration a-t-elle évolué au cours de la dernière décennie ?

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

[USA] New York Times - For Young Latino Readers, an Image Is Missing


[Picture from the same article, copyright nytimes.com, 4/12/2012 – Image MOTOKO RICH]

4.12.2012. Like many of his third-grade classmates, Mario Cortez-Pacheco likes reading the “Magic Tree House” series, about a brother and a sister who take adventurous trips back in time. He also loves the popular “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” graphic novels.

But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. “I see a lot of people that don’t have a lot of color,” he said.

Hispanic students now make up nearly a quarter of the nation’s public school enrollment, according to an analysis of census data by the Pew Hispanic Center, and are the fastest-growing segment of the school population. Yet nonwhite Latino children seldom see themselves in books written for young readers. (Dora the Explorer, who began as a cartoon character, is an outlier.)

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Friday, December 07, 2012

[Allemagne] Reuters - Merkel veut réveiller la CDU grâce aux femmes et aux immigrés

5.12.2012. Aygül Özkan, fille d'un tailleur turc, incarne le nouveau visage du camp conservateur en Allemagne.

L'arrivée de cette femme d'origine étrangère dans les instances dirigeantes de la CDU illustre la volonté d'Angela Merkel de rajeunir et de diversifier sociologiquement son parti.

Aygül Özkan est ministre des Affaires sociales du Land de Basse-Saxe. Cette jeune quadragénaire est l'une des quatre personnalités politiques issues de l'immigration à avoir été élues au comité directeur de l'Union chrétienne-démocrate lors du congrès du parti, mardi et mercredi à Hanovre.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

[Italy] Al Arabiya - Arab immigrants stuck in socio-political limbo: Iraqi-Italian director


[Picture from the same article - copyright alarabiya.net, 08/11/2012]

08.11.2012. “My name is Said Mahran, and I am an Italian like you,” said the protagonist of Sta Per Piovere (It's About To Rain), by Iraqi-Italian director Haider Rashid, who described second generation immigrants as being stuck in a socio-political limbo.

The movie tackles issues of cultural and legal straddling that many like fictitious Mahran encounter.

Mahran, the son of an Algerian immigrant is faced with the dilemma of returning to Algeria – a country he has never visited – or remaining as an illegal immigrant, following the bread factory director's suicide; the place where Mahran works and relies on for his residency visa.

“In the attempt to find a solution and bring attention to a problem that is more and more widespread in nowadays’ society, Said embarks on a journey that takes him to lawyers, workers' unions and the press through the meanders of a retrograde legislative bureaucracy, the reconsideration of his identity,” Rashid explains the movie's plotline.