Cetta Mainwaring

Cetta Mainwaring

Ċetta Mainwaring is a researcher and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research focuses on cont... emporary migration struggles, borders, and the Mediterranean. Her first book ‘At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean’ was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

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How Mal­ta stole the youth of three young men

Ab­dal­la, Ama­ra and Kad­er helped au­thor­i­ties defuse a tense sit­u­a­tion on a boat with asy­lum seek­ers. Their re­ward? Jail.

Opinion by Cetta Mainwaring and Maurice Stierl
Published On 25 Aug 2023
Maltese special forces soldiers guard a group of migrants on the merchant ship Elhiblu 1 after it arrived in Senglea, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Malta, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi