Chinese Learn French to Emigrate to Quebec

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Louise Watt, Chinese Hoping Ticket out of China Is French Class. Associated Press, Mar 19, 2012.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/sto ... mp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Quote:

"Chinese desperate to emigrate have discovered a backdoor into Canada that involves applying for entry into the country's francophone province of Quebec - as long as they have a good working knowledge of the local lingo.

"But many governments are making it harder to emigrate * * * That's where Quebec comes in. The province selects its own immigrants and doesn't have any cap or backlog of applicants like Canada's national program does. But it requires most immigrants to demonstrate their knowledge of French.

"Chinese were the biggest group of immigrants to Canada from 2001 to 2009, although they fell to third place in 2010 behind people from the Philippines and India, even as the numbers of Chinese rose. In 2010-2011, China became the number one source for immigrants to Australia as numbers of new Chinese migrants rose to just under 30,000. In the US, Chinese were behind only Mexicans in being granted lawful permanent residence in the three years to 2010, the latest year for which data is available.

Note: In French, "je m'appelle" means "my name is."


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Lin Szu-yu and Hanna Liu, Number of Taiwanese Students at US Universities Drops. CNA, Mar 18, 2012.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/W ... amp;ID=201203180017
("The number of Taiwanese students at United States universities totaled 24,818 in the 2010-2011 school year, marking a decline of 7 percent from the previous year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said Sunday. However, despite the drop, Taiwan still ranked as the fifth largest source of foreign students in the US, the MOE said, citing a recent report by the New York-based Institute of International Education (IIE)")