Malta Migration Archive

We are a collective documenting and counter-mapping border violence in Malta, at sea and on land.

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

Italian press is on it too!

https://t.co/7lqYI6nnLR

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

Thanks to @Newsbook_com_mt for posting our new data!

https://t.co/BkgFaYxtNA

[MaltaToday @maltatoday]

Unprecedented increase in pushbacks from Malta’s SAR zone https://t.co/KTqx0h1RCn

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

Thanks to @TheTimesofMalta for covering our research!

https://t.co/C3KqfPOwSF

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

New 2025 data reveals continued non-assistance and a surge in illegal pushbacks to Libya!

242 cases of distress in 01-06/2025. Maltese authorities continued to deny assistance to people whose lives were at risk, only rescuing two of these boats.

https://t.co/BzJCKUICKB

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

Thanks to the Civil MRCC for publishing out article and keeping us informed what happens in SAR!

https://t.co/16kMPkP5mg

[The Civil Fleet @FleetCivil]

🚨NEW EPISODE:

Cetta & Daniel of @MigrationMalta tell us about exposing:
• the Maltese government's refusal to save refugee lives
• how it ignores civilian rescuers
• pressurises commercial ships not to rescue
• and how it organises pushbacks with the Libyan coastguards.

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

An honour to present the Archive at Malta Refugee Council's ‘Protection Begins at Sea’ event with
others!

Participants reminded Malta's Migration Ambassador that distress calls are always a matter of life & death. Fundamental rights are not 'pull factors' & are non-negotiable.

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

@alarm_phone Thanks @alarm_phone ! ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏾

[@alarmphone @alarm_phone]

Alarm Phone is thrilled about the launch of the Migration Archive, which sheds light on border violence in #Malta & systematically documents the many ways that the Maltese state & other actors obstruct mobility, causing harm at sea and on land. See: https://t.co/EdUL7fvQPw

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

@maltatoday Thank you for covering the event!

[MaltaToday @maltatoday]

Maltese NGOs launch the Malta Migration Archive to document dangerous migration policies https://t.co/wbdn7fgU6c

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

@Newsbook_com_mt Thank you for covering this story!
No more non-assistance, Malta needs to act!

[Newsbook.com.mt @Newsbook_com_mt]

A new digital archive showed Malta’s systematic #abandonment of #migrants in #distress at #sea, revealing that the island nation rescued only 2-3% of the nearly 80,000 people who found themselves in peril within #Malta’s search and rescue zone.

https://t.co/YkGLYyip4z

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

Malta Sea Rescues Plummet!

"By last year, a migrant boat was 10 times more likely to be intercepted by a Libyan militia vessel than be rescued by AFM"

Read the full article of @TheTimesofMalta on the launch of our Malta Migration Archive!

https://t.co/9V3xKcP8nP

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

"As the documented pushbacks increased, data collected by the archive also shows that rescues of the boats in distress by the Armed Forces of Malta moved in the opposite direction."

Read the full article from Amphora Media:
https://t.co/NqtCBdwzof

[Malta Migration Archive @MigrationMalta]

We officially launched the Malta Migration Archive in Valletta. The Archive sheds light on border violence in Malta and documents state practices of non-assistance and pushbacks to Libya.

Find us at: https://t.co/yxH2QNGGSF