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.

MySite: Migrant & Youth Social Inclusion Through Entrepreneurship

This project addresses entrepreneurship as a tool towards integration. My Site promotes migrant and youth entrepreneurship as a means of improving prospects of employment and financial independence and promote the social inclusion of Third Country National youth in five countries. The project activities include research on the needs of young entrepreneurs and the resources in each participating country, as well as the development and implementation of a training course for local and TCNs youth interested in entrepreneurship. Our project is unique as it encourages TCN youths and local youths to explore the entrepreneurship as an opportunity together. PfC is the lead partner of the project and is responsible for the overall planning and management of the project. Moreover, PfC is implementing the project activities in Malta, including undertaking the national research and implementing training sessions.

Keywords: entrepreneurship, integration, employment.

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DARE: Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality

The Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality Project contributes to an enhanced understanding of why and how young people become radicalised, that is adopt radical ideologies with the potential for violent action. It does so through conceptual innovation and refinement based on new empirical research on young people’s encounters with messages and agents of radicalisation, their receptivity and responses to them and the paths they subsequently take. The project also seeks to demonstrate that radicalisation is not located exclusively in any one religion, community or demographic. Through its focus on Islamist and anti-Islam(ist) radicalisations, it explores how radicalisation processes interact and may have cumulative effects in society. DARE sees the future of radicalisation studies not in profiling the individual and his/her presumed associated qualities but understanding the process and meaning of engagement with radicalisation for the individual in historical, socio-cultural and political context. PfC is responsible for conducting research and other project activities in Malta, for the development of educational toolkits and for the project’s continuation and impact plans.

Keywords: radicalisation, equality, youth.

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SHELTER: Support and Advice Through Health System for Hate Crimes Victims

SHELTER seeks to tackle the under-reporting of hate crime through engagement with the health system. It aims to strengthen the medical and psycho-social care provided to victims of hate crime by healthcare services, to facilitate the access to assistance, protection, and specialised support services for victims of hate crime, and to incorporate national health institutions into the support structures. The project activities include research, the development of tools and draft protocols for detecting and assisting victims of hate crime and the capacity building of professionals and students in the health sector through training, awareness raising activities and the establishment of an International Network of Healthcare Workers. The People for Change Foundation is responsible for the implementation of the project activities in Malta.

Keywords: hate crime, healthcare, victim support.

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EWSI: European Website on Integration

PfC is the National Coordinator for the European Web Site on Integration (EWSI). The website provides up-to-date information and good practices on migrant integration in Europe for policy-makers and practitioners. EWSI is a European Commission initiative and falls under the responsibility of the Directorate-General Home Affairs. As country coordinator, our role includes updating the website with relevant legislation and policy documents, research and other documents, news stories, good practices and events focusing on integration in Malta.

Keywords: integration, migration, European Union.

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FRANET National Focal Point

PfC is the National Focal Point for FRANET, the multidisciplinary, multi-country research network for the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA). As National Focal Point, PfC’s role includes providing research on the various topics the agency is charged to do research on in Malta. The Agency uses this information to write their comparative reports, publish them as self-standing national reports, compose their comparative surveys or complete the handbooks they publish.

Keywords: fundamental rights, European Union.

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INTEGRA-TRAIN: Enhancing the Integration of Women Beneficiaries of International Protection by Development and Implementation of Multifaceted Integration Trainings

This project aims to foster the integration of women beneficiaries of international protection in the participating countries and the European Union more broadly. INTEGRA-TRAIN encourages an information-sharing network between Member States with a long history of refugee integration (Italy and Spain) with those who have a less developed integration structure. In addition, it builds capacity for national NGOs as well as governmental organisations to offer integration courses, especially to women, and facilitate familiarisation with the social, legal, political, and cultural environment of participating States. To achieve these goals, the partner organisations are carrying out research in their countries, provide opportunities for stakeholders to participate in study visits in Italy and Spain and will develop and pilot national training seminars. PfC is responsible for implementing the project activities in Malta, including the research and training course.

Keywords: integration, migrant women.

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BINI: Best Practices in Tackling Trafficking Nigerian Route

The project supports the exchange of good practices between practitioners and organizations working on the identification, support, protection and integration of trafficked persons. BINI is carried out in Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malta and Spain. The project aims to enhance the skills and capacities of governmental and non-governmental actors to fight and prevent human trafficking (with a focus on Nigerian women and girls), to spread best practices and to increase cooperation in the field and raise awareness. The project focuses on the circumstances and the needs of persons trafficked to, through and within the partner countries. Throughout the implementation, the organisations will carry out research as well as capacity building with the relevant institutions in their countries. PfC is responsible for undertaking the project activities in Malta including research and capacity building sessions.

Keywords: human trafficking, victim support, protection

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Report Racism Malta

Report Racism Malta is a project of PfC, first launched in November 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 provides an avenue for reporting incidents to individual victims (or witnesses) of discrimination and racism and will offer guidance in cases where cases may be taken forward and remedies accessed.

Keywords: racism, discrimination, reporting.

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Recent Projects

ComeIn: COMMUNITY: Interactive and Creative Approaches to Discover Different Cultures

ComeIN is an audio-visual project currently being implemented in five European countries including Malta. The project introduces creative and artistic integration activities and strategies for refugees and migrants. The project partners aim to organise workshops with the aim of empowering participants to use art and photography to present their experience of integration in the respective host countries, with an exciting opportunity to present their work in an (online) exhibition. PfC is responsible for the project activities in Malta.

Keywords: art, photography, integration.

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THACAS: Tackling Hate Crime and Hate Speech

With a view to addressing the under-reporting of hate crime and hate speech, this project uses insights from in-depth research to build mutual learning and exchange of practices in particular through the development of training and other tools for promoting the reporting of these crimes. Spanning across five EU countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta and Lithuania), the project seeks to identify the gaps and challenges for joint action to counter hate crime and to understand the different approaches the participating states have taken towards hate crime and hate speech. PfC is responsible for the research and awareness raising activities in Malta and to share it’s experiences from Report Racism Malta with the other partners.

Keywords: hate crime, hate speech.

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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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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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