Projects
The People for Change Foundation is currently working on a number of projects in the areas of migration and trafficking. To learn more about our projects, please contact us at info@pfcmalta.org.
INFORM
This project critically engages with the legal and procedural information provided to asylum seekers and draws out evidence of best practice. It will provide an assessment of the current state of play, an exchange of existing best practices and a roadmap for enhancing the legal and procedural information provided to asylum seekers. To this end, the project will involve country studies and a comparative analysis of six selected European Union (EU) Member States: Cyprus, Estonia, Italy, Malta, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The project pays particular attention to the needs of specific groups of asylum seekers such as women, children, and disabled persons.
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CONTACT
The project monitors and reports on hate crime and hate speech in ten EU countries (Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Spain, and United Kingdom). To this aim, it conducts research and training activities with the cooperation of project partners. In particular, this project involves comparative analysis of hate crime incidents, public awareness-raising activities on hate crime as well as the development of teaching modules for university courses and training materials for law enforcement officers and media practitioners. It makes use of innovative methodologies to denounce and monitor hate crime incidents (i.e. a web platform, an online crime reporting tool and a mobile application). The data collected will be invaluable in informing policy development. The main target groups of the project include youth, media as well as legal and law enforcement professionals.
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MedMig: Unravelling the Mediterranean migration crisis
In response to the unprecedented increase in migration rates in 2015, The People for Change Foundation has partnered with the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) at Coventry University and others to conduct the first large-scale, systematic and comparative study on the backgrounds, experiences, aspirations and routes of migrants who have made the journey across the Mediterranean in 2015. Additionally, this research explores migrants’ interactions with migration facilitators and agents, humanitarian organizations and other third parties to determine how these interactions are influencing migrants’ decisions to make the journey and shaping subsequent migration patterns.
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Evimed
EVI-MED is conducting data collection and analysis on the so-called Mediterranean 'migration crisis'. Within the context of the lack of reliable data and a multiplicity of governmental and non-government agencies currently handling large flows of migrants and refugees, EVI-MED will map the nature and extent of the migration crisis, identify the structural aspects and outcomes of rapidly changing practices undertaken by States and NGOs, as well as analyze the rationale, plans and trajectories of diverse groups of migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean. EVI-MED will provide insights into the major humanitarian, social, economic and political implications for the principal countries of arrival – above all Italy and Greece – as well as Malta, which is a central pillar of the search and rescue effort.
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Ll2II - Learning of Local Bodies to Integrate Immigrants
Learning of Local Bodies to Integrate Immigrants (LL2II) supports the capacity development of civil society and local authorities’ staff working for migrant inclusion into the host society. To this end, the project employs innovative approaches and tools facilitating transnational learning such as an Open Learning Platform. Additionally, the project will involve collection of good practices on migrant integration from five selected European countries (i.e. Austria, Italy, Malta, Spain, and Turkey) and the development of a training curriculum to support local practitioners working with migrants.
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Report Racism Malta
Report Racism Malta is a project of the People for Change Foundation, launched in October 2014 to address the under-reporting of discriminatory incidents by creating an easy-to-use mechanism for communicating incidents of racial discrimination. Report Racism Malta will provide an avenue for reporting incidents to individual victims of discrimination and racism, and will offer guidance in cases where cases may be taken forward and remedies accessed.
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Use of Social Media by Migrants
he People for Change Foundation is conducting exploratory research on the use of social media by migrants in Malta. The project results will feed into an improved understanding of the most effective ways of engaging with migrant communities through the use of social media, particularly how to disseminate information relating to migrants’ rights and life conditions in Malta. The project aims to recognize and understand the use of social media by migrants as both a tool for communication, social networking as well as a means of information distribution.
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Migrant Entrepreneurship
We are currently conducting exploratory research on migrant entrepreneurship in Malta. This participative research aims to investigate the types of entrepreneurship in which migrants in Malta are involved in. The objectives of the project are to create a better understanding of migrants' independent economic activity as well as understanding the challenges of such engagement.
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