Valletta and Our Common Good: Biċċerija, Valletta Design Cluster
Unlike Is-Suq, immediate neighbours of Valletta Design Cluster appear to be on-side and look forward to the proposed open access roof garden and possibility of finding artists on their doorsteps.
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Asylum Seekers: Burden, Cheap Labour or … Human Beings?
The asylum applicants are met with two contradictory demands: to be traumatised and persecuted enough to be recognised as refugees, and to be physically and emotionally fit in order to contribute to the host country’s economy.
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‘Safe City Malta’: Is Privacy the Real Crux of the Matter?
Apart from privacy, the Safe City Malta project raises a number of issues that must be addressed by the Maltese authorities: Who will be storing the data? What will be done with the data? Who will be monitoring the data?
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‘Deserving’ vs ‘Undeserving’: Refugees vs Economic Migrants
Suffering seems to be an obligatory justification to enter Europe. In a fairer and more balanced system, economic migrants would have not had to take a perilous journey just to find work. But if trauma is the expectation, they get traumatised, too.
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