iMap
Malta
Population:
NFP: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion
Involvement:
Since 2006
The main migration policy instruments in Malta:
Non-exhaustive list of key policy documents in the area of migration:
- National policies and legislation:
- Consult Malta’s national law database.
- Consult recent publications of the European Migration Network.
- EU legislation:
- Consult the adopted EU legislation on Migration and Home Affairs
- Ratified international treaties:
- 1971: ratification of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
- 2003: ratification of the 2000 Protocols on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants.
The main ministries in charge of migration affairs:
- Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security: Together with its subordinate authorities it is the main body dealing with migration affairs, including immigration (entry, residence); border management and irregular migration; asylum (reception and detention centres; asylum procedure).
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion: visa and consular affairs; diaspora affairs; foreign policy aspects of migration.
- Ministry for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties: social integration.
- Ministry for Education and Employment: labour migration.
Sources:
- Maltese National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (2013): The Organisation of Migration and Asylum Policies in Malta.
- https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/networks/european_migration_network/reports/docs/emn-studies/asylum-migration/18._malta_factsheet_institutional_chart_en.pdf
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion (2018): Official Website (accessed 8.12.2018). https://foreignaffairs.gov.mt/en/Pages/Home.aspx
- United Nations DESA-Population Division and UNICEF (2014): Migration Profiles - Common Set of Indicators. https://esa.un.org/MigGMGProfiles/Indicators/indicators.HTM
Last update: December 2018
Located in: Countries
