Detained Sea Watch 3 also serves as temporary home to its crew members. Sea rescue is not just about misery and suffering. There is space for hope and fun too. Toys, washing lines and origami birds in the engineer’s cabin are also part of a rescue vessel.
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Society & Politics
On How Not to Consider the Immigration Issue
The EU rhetoric heavily focuses on stopping smugglers from exploiting people and putting their lives at risk, instead of examining what induces them to seek the services of smugglers in the first place.
Environment
True Value of Land
The question is not whether we will run out of physical land (although in a country as small as Malta this is physically possible), but rather what kind of society do we want to be. Do we want to depend on imports? Do we want to do away with agriculture altogether?
Education & Opportunity
Strange Bedfellows: Education, Neoliberalism and the Need for Subversion
The neoliberal ideology has not only ensured that educational practices are being modelled on practices from business world, it has become the dominant philosophy of most educational institutions.
Sexuality & Gender
Exiled Homes: The Stories of Filipino Caregivers in Malta
The craft of embroidery transforms and embellishes the experiences of the caregivers: it evacuates them from the confines of the private household and turns into artworks accessible to the public.
Panem et Circenses
Spectres are Haunting Europe A Film by Maria Kourkouta/Niki Giannari, Reviewed
If refugees and migrants do not simply “become like us”, forgetful of a system which will keep producing its outcasts, the ‘vanguard’ of refugees may become the sign of a new beginning, of the possibility of a different world.
#Technology Matters
Earn Money Online: the Politics of Microwork and Machines
Understanding how the world of work is changing, and in whose interest, is the key political question of the future.
Heart + Mind = Harmony
My Passport
Poem by Stephen Cachia.
