migration

Police inspections find 17 living irregularly. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Police inspections target migrants finding 17 living in Malta irregularly

Latest in a series of inspections into irregularities by immigration police

May 27, 2023| Times of Malta
Boone is the French EU minister. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

All EU states must share responsibility for migrants, French Minister says

Laurence Boone in Malta discussing the EU pact on asylum and migration

May 26, 2023| Jessica Arena
Clayton Xuereb, the new CEO of the migrants agency.

New CEO announced for migrants' agency AWAS

Clayton Xuereb to take over from former ONE TV employee Raymond Theuma

May 25, 2023| Times of Malta
The boat's position when it was last in contact with Alarm Phone. Diagram: Alarm Phone

500 people adrift in Maltese search and rescue zone - Alarm Phone

Water entering the lower deck, NGO reports

May 24, 2023| Sarah Carabott
Victoria died in January 2018. File photo: Shutterstock

Parents of girl who died from rare disease found guilty of death through neglect

'System failed Victoria': court asks why it took a death for authorities to issue care order

May 22, 2023| Sarah Carabott
A woman sells foodstuffs at a stall on a market street in southern Khartoum.

Malta halts decisions on Sudanese asylum applications, stops repatriations

Sudan has been ravaged by civil war

May 22, 2023| Sarah Carabott
One of the raids underway on Sunday.

24 found to be living in Malta illegally

They are being held at the Detention Centre

May 21, 2023| Times of Malta
File photo: Times of Malta

Man who paid €15,000 for tampered passport jailed for six months

Husam Hamad was travelling from Turkey to Ireland through Greece and Malta

May 19, 2023| Edwina Brincat
Migrants are often detained for months on end without even knowing their legal rights. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

‘Totally unhygienic’: board slams state of Safi detention centre

Access to the centre by NGOs is tightly controlled and restricted

May 18, 2023| Jacob Borg
AWAS is a government agency that oversees the welfare of asylum seekers.

Ex-One TV employee is running agency for migrants

Other officials ‘perfectly qualified’ for role

May 11, 2023| Mark Laurence Zammit
Migrants arriving in Italy. Photo: AFP, Guardia Costiera

Italy busts eastern Mediterranean people trafficking ring

Migrants paid €7,000 to €15,000 for the journey

May 10, 2023| AFP
Nine of 10 charged with escaping from a detention centre pleaded guilty, one not guilty. File photo

Nine men who escaped from detention centre plead for forgiveness

10th man insists he is not guilty

May 9, 2023| Edwina Brincat
Sanchez is waiting for her brother, who lives in Los Angeles, California, to buy them bus tickets to continue their trip into the US to meet him. Photo: AFP

'Very afraid': migrants race to cross US border before rules shift

On Thursday Biden will lift protocol implemented by Trump

May 8, 2023| AFP
29 people are in Maltese SAR according to Alarm Phone (insert). File photo: AFP

EU urged to rescue 29 people in deteriorating weather conditions in Malta waters

Wind and rain forecast for Monday and Tuesday

May 8, 2023| Sarah Carabott
Olivér Várhelyi: “We should be very clear about the need to crack the smugglers’ business model.”

Watch: ‘Malta’s effort at sea critical for defence of EU borders’

European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi discusses European migration policy in Times of Malta interview

May 4, 2023| Sarah Carabott
In 2022 Malta ignored calls of distress and failed to rescue around 7,459 people in distress at sea. File photo: AFP

One in four people who applied for protection in 2022 was Syrian

'None of Home Affairs Ministry authorities provided statistical procedural information'

May 3, 2023| Sarah Carabott
People who pay taxes for years are being excluded from the pensions system, due to their nationality. Photo: Shutterstock

Editorial: Injustice created by NI system

The system needs to be made fairer to foreign workers who pay their contributions from hard-earned wages

May 3, 2023| Times of Malta
Roman (left) and the rest of the Colori team with YA Malta CEO Matthew Caruana and the team’s mentor Frank Zammit (fifth and sixth from left)

A young Ukrainian given a fresh start in Malta – Totty Aris

A charity sponsors a refugee’s sixth form education at Verdala International School

April 30, 2023| Totty Aris, head, Verdala International School
Pope Francis leading an open air mass in Budapest. Photo: AFP

Pope appeals for Hungarians to be 'open' to migrants

Thousands thronged a central Budapest square to hear the pope lead an open-air mass

April 30, 2023| AFP
Rescuers reach one of the boats carrying migrants across the Mediterranean. Photo: SOS Mediterranee

153 migrants saved in Malta's rescue zone: French charity

Ocean Viking is now carrying rescued people to Italian coastal town of Civitavecchia

April 29, 2023| AFP
People who pay taxes for years are being excluded from the pensions system, due to their nationality. Photo: Shutterstock

Church commission: Tax-paying non-EU workers are facing pensions discrimination

Commission calls for reform of social contract to fix 'morally unacceptable' system

April 29, 2023| Times of Malta
African people rescued by the Italian Guardia di Finanza entering Lampedusa last March. Photo: Alessio Tricani/Shutterstock.com

Editorial: So many excuses to hide information about migrants

The AFM's efforts to keep data hidden means only what ministers want to emerge, does

April 29, 2023| Times of Malta
Migrant workers and their families often experience marginalisation, xenophobia and poor living and working conditions. File Photo: Chris Sant Fournier

We are allowing thousands to be treated like slaves – Evarist Bartolo

It's time for trade unions to start protecting exploited migrant workers

April 28, 2023| Evarist Bartolo
Denmark's capital Copenhagen. Photo: Shutterstock

Denmark plans more restrictive path to citizenship

'Until you shake hands at the ceremony, you must live in Denmark'

April 27, 2023| AFP
In conversations the word ‘foreigners’ often crops up, in rather negative, or even derogatory senses. Photo: Marc Aaron

Others are not hell – Saadun Suayeh

Blaming ‘foreigners’ for society’s ills can lead to disastrous consequences

April 26, 2023| Saadun Suayeh
The Lithuanian Parliament in session. Photo: AFP

Lithuania legalises migrant pushbacks

The Baltic state has been engaging in pushbacks since 2021

April 25, 2023| AFP
Survivors from one boat that went down in Malta's search and rescue area told officials about 20 people on board were missing. Photo: Guardia Costiera/ AFP

Watch: More than 20 feared dead in shipwrecks off Malta, Italy

35 boats have been rescued, 20 more vessels remain at sea.

April 24, 2023| AFP
Maltese authorities deny the existence of any plan to systematically ignore rescue calls. AFP file photo

Request for data about migrant arrivals dismissed as 'curiosity'

AFM cites ‘national security’ issues

April 23, 2023| Sarah Carabott
Women, predominantly of Comorian origin, gather at the 'Talus 2' slum in the Majicavo slope, near Koungou, in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. Phtoo: AFP

Migrant fears grow as France eyes clearance of Mayotte shantytown

Authorities in Mayotte were expected to launch Operation Wuambushu as early as this weekend

April 23, 2023| AFP
A picture uploaded by Sea Watch showing a fishing boat crammed with migrants drifting between Malta and Greece in Malta's SAR earlier this month.

Editorial: Safe harbour out of bounds

People hanging on to dear life as their overcrowded boat drifts in dangerous waters do not need to send an SOS to be saved

April 18, 2023| Times of Malta