For a decade, the small Mediterranean island of Malta has been coping with illegal immigrants crossing from the North African coast, in many cases just trying to save their bare lives from undemocratic regimes. Although this number is growing day by day, it seems that neither side is really satisfied.
After risking their lives on the sea, knowing how many before them didn’t make it, immigrants coming from Somalia, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria and other African countries, soon realize that their dream for a better life is trapped in 316 km2 of Malta. For the majority this wasn’t their main destination, but rather that bad luck brought them to Malta’s detention centers instead of much more wanted Italy. Even with the granted refugee status, just a small portion of these unfortunate people face open doors of other EU countries.
In following seconds you will be hearing, straight from streets of Malta, what some of them expected when they started their tricky journey and how much of those expectations they had to modify.
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