Migration Dynamics

of a European Island State

European Migration Network

Malta National Contact Point

Annual Conference2 December 2013

In-Netwerk Ewropew tal-MigrazzjoniMinistry for Home Affairs and National Security

Co-funded by the European Union

8.30 Registration

9.15 Opening remarks

9.20 EMN Overview Julian Micallef – Assistant Director (Third Country Nationals), Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security

9.35 Locating the ‘Arab Spring’: Lived experiences of contemporary politics among Arabs in Malta Nathalie Grima – Masters in Sociology at the University of Malta

9.50 The Effect of Immigration on the Psychosocial Development of Adoloscents Suelle Micallef Marmara’ – Masters in Transcultural Counselling at the University of Malta

10.05 The Dynamics of Asylum and Burden Sharing – Case Studies of Malta and Cyprus Justine Cuschieri – Currently reading a Masters in European Politics, Economics and Law at the University of Malta

10.20 Foreign Workers in Malta – Philippine Nationals Mona Rogong – President, Filipino Overseas Contract Workers Association in Malta 10.35 Reactions from the floor

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10.45 Coffee break

11.15 Third Country Nationals’ access to Social Security JosephineVella–NonContributoryBenefitsSection–HeadOffice Anthony Cesare - Assistant Director (Customer Care), Social Security Department, Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity

11.35 Migration and Economic Recession: Balancing the economic approach with workers’ rights Luca Visentini - Confederal Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation

11.55 Replacement migration: a remedy for Europe? Christopher Wilson - Professorial Fellow, Department of Anthropology, NuffieldCollege,UniversityofOxford

12.15 Irregular Migrations to Southern European Islands Camille Schmoll - Lecturer (Geography), University of Paris Diderot and visiting fellow at the Ecole Française de Rome

12.35 Reactions from the floor

12.45 Concluding remarks Networking lunch

The European Migration Network (EMN) is co-ordinated by the European Commission with National Contact Points in each EU Member State plus Norway

European Migration NetworkMalta National Contact Point

Annual Conference2 December 2013

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Anthony Cesare is at present Assistant Director (Customer Care) within the Department of Social Security. He has been employed in the Civil Service for the last thirty three years. Within the Deparment of Social Security he served as Supervisor and System Administrator with a brief stint as an Operations Manager at the International Relations Unit prior to taking up the position of Assistant Director. The primary role of Assistant Di-rector (Customer Care) is administering the Social Security branch offices and managing a team of customer relations officers.

Justine Cuschieri is currently reading a Masters in European Politics, Economics and law at the University of Malta and just graduated in Bachelor of European Studies. Cur-rently working as a Projects Assistant at the Malta Business Bureau. The focus of the dissertation ‘The Dynamics of Asylum and Burden Sharing – Case Studies of Malta and Cyprus’ sought to bring out what the EU has been doing over the recent years to assist its Member States, particularly Malta and Cyprus, in relation to asylum burden-sharing.

Nathalie Grima has recently completed her Masters in Sociology at the University of Malta. Her fieldwork for a research-based dissertation focused on political transnational-ism among foreign residents in Malta, who are first generation migrants from North Afri-can and Middle Eastern countries. She is also one of the founders of the local Fair Trade Cooperative, Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust. Her work experience includes co-ordination of development education projects; and assisting in carrying out a small-scale research with women in Bormla for the artistic project called ‘Din Mhix Tazza’.

Suelle Micallef Marmara’ has been working as a Staff Nurse for the last twelve years. Started her nursing career at the intensive care unit before moving to neonatal and pae-diatric intensive care unit. She developed an interest within the psychological field and furthered her education by reading a Master of Arts in Transcultural Counselling. With the ever-growing number of immigrants and refugees in Malta, together with her interest in adolescence, she looked into the effect of immigration and cultural differences on this population and how they adapt to a new country.

Maimona C. Rogong graduated as a Bachelor of Science of Nursing. Worked in King-dom of Saudi Arabia at ‘Saudi German Hospital as staff nurse from 1993 to 2001. From 2002 to 2003 worked at Abuslim Hospital, Tripoli Libya as ICU nurse. From 2007 to 2010 worked at Dar Sta Anna, Senglea under Curia as Assistant Nursing Home. Currently working as a Personal Caregiver. Was appointed Secretary at FOCOWIM in June 2007. 2010 elected as the Vice President of the Organization. Elected President since 2011.

Camille Schmoll completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Paris Nanterre (2004) and a post-doctorate at the European University Institute, Florence (2005-2007). Cur-rently a lecturer in geography at University of Paris Diderot and visiting fellow at the Ecole Française de Rome (2013-2014). She co-edited three books: Gender, Generations and the Family within International Migration (with Eleonore Kofman, Albert Kraler, and Mar-tin Kohli, 2011); Stranieri in Italia. La generazione dopo (with Marzio Barbagli, 2011); Les aléas des genres (with the Femmagh group, Karthala, Paris). Member of Miriade, a network of researchers focusing on migration to Southern European Islands. Currently co-editing with Godfrey Baldacchino and Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir two special issues on irregular migration to Southern European Islands.

Josephine Vella joined the Civil Service in 1976 and was posted at the Social Security Department where she still serves. For 24 years she worked at the Short-Term Benefit Section, 8 years of which as Supervisor. Spent 2 years at the Pensions Section working on re-assessments. In 2002 was appointed District Manager where she served for over 10 years at Msida and Sliema Districts. In 2012 she was posted to Head Office at the Non-Contributory Benefits Section, where she vets applications lodged by EU and TCN’s. She also handles resettlement cases of asylum seekers and acts as contact person for the District Offices.

Luca Visentini is Confederal Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. He was previously General Secretary of the Unione Italiano del Lavoro (UIL) of Friuli Venezia Giulia, General Secretary of the UIL Confederal Chamber of Labour (Trieste) and member of the National Board and the Central Committee of the National UIL. He is Vice President for European Coordination of the Inter-Regional Trade Union Council (IRTUC), member of the ETUC Economic and Employment Committee and President of the IRTUC covering several regions in Italy and Croatia.

Dr Chris Wilson is a demographer at the University of Oxford. He is one of Europe’s leading experts on long-term population change and its relationship with wider social and economic development. He is especially well known for his work on fertility, and in recent years he has studied how migration and fertility work together to determine patterns of inter-generational replacement.

The European Migration Network (EMN) plays a key role in providing up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and aslyum topics to policy makers (at EU and Member State level) and the general public. Council Decision 2008/381/EC establishing a legal basis for the EMN was adopted on 14th May 2008. The EMN responds to information needs through its reports and studies, Ad-Hoc Queries, informs (policy briefs), bulletins and policy factsheets.

Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security In-Netwerk Ewropew tal-Migrazzjoni

Co-funded by the European Union