Disintegrating the integrated

The Times of Malta, The Malta Independent and MaltaToday have joined forces to call on the Maltese government to review Malta's arbitrary system of 'temporary humanitarian protection' and to regularise the position of detained migrants whose looming ejection from the island appears to be guided by opportunistic politics rather than reasoned policy. Malta has to accept a reality of 'non-returnable' migrants who have been subject to return procedures but who cannot be returned for legal or logistical reasons, due to no fault of their own. The status known as THPN (temporary humanitarian protection new) was first introduced in 2010 by means of a policy decision of the then Home Affairs Ministry. This regularisation is granted in cases where people cannot be removed from the country but are allowed a one-year, renewable residence permit subject to documented evidence of "their integration efforts and employment history in Malta". Until last year, there were just under 1,000 such people with THPN. While all had their asylum claims rejected at appeal stage, they remain here because the authorities have not been able to return them, through no fault of their own. In many cases, this is...

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