Social Policies in Malta

Azzopardi, Rose Marie

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“…The majority of respondents were of the second oldest age group, and the results show that while Maltese is the first language of most of the participants (61.2%) only 2.9% of the respondents interact in Maltese only with their children, clearly indicating a shift in language use. A similar observation in Australia was noted by Azzopardi (2014) who maintains that the first-generation post Second World War Maltese migrants yearned for their children to be eloquent in English and thereby the Maltese language in Australia is now risking extinction. Pauwels (2016) affirms that when investigating language retention, one must set apart those migrants who grew up in the country of origin and those who grew up in the host country.…”

Section: Language Maintenance and Shiftsupporting

confidence: 72%

Three Women, Three Generations: An In-Depth Case Study of Language Retention and Shift in One Family from the Maltese Australian Community in Melbourne

Muscat

2024

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This paper analysis one family pertaining to the Maltese Australian community in Melbourne and investigates the retention of the Maltese language. The Maltese Australian community is a small community that is getting smaller since migration from Malta to Australia has largely stopped. Thus, the Maltese language is spoken mostly by the first generation of immigrants who left the island after the Second World War seeking a better future. The second generation, born in Australia, usually understands the language but lacks the opportunity or the will to speak the language except with members of the family. The third generation, raised in a multicultural country, normally has very little fluency in the Maltese language. The investigation is grounded in interview data gathered among a family of three generations of Maltese origin in Melbourne. The findings of this research show that the aging population of the Maltese community and the dominance of the English language do not favour the retention of the Maltese language in the future. With the end of the first generation of post-World War Two migrants and the emergence of the fourth and fifth generations, probably, there will be an absolute shift to English, the de-facto national language of Australia.

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Section: Language Maintenance and Shiftsupporting

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Three Women, Three Generations: An In-Depth Case Study of Language Retention and Shift in One Family from the Maltese Australian Community in Melbourne

Muscat

2024

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“…Malta, a small archipelago at the centre of the Mediterranean, gained independence from the UK in 1964 after 160 years as a British military fortress. As part of its decolonisation process the country was weaned off military spending through several development plans in the 1960s and 1970s with an eye to fostering an industrial base and to encourage tourism (Azzopardi, 2011). With British membership of the EEC looming Malta signed a two-stage Association Agreement (AA) with Brussels in 1970 but political instability led to an increasingly acrimonious relationship between the Community and Malta and the second stage of the AA was never begun (Pace, 2001).…”

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Maltas Europeanization experience: How smallness enables a state to minimise the monitoring of its implementation of EU policy by third parties

Harwood¹

2012

J. Public Adm. Policy Res.

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This paper discusses the issue of how size impacts a country's experience of EU membership, in particular its ability to control the implementation of EU policy. Small countries share several characteristics at an EU level, in that they avoid isolation in the Council and depend on partnership with larger member states. In terms of Malta, this was shown to be the case but other factors appear to have brought this about, in particular the country's political history. In terms of Europeanization, small states adopt flexible arrangements to manage membership with public servants empowered in the process. This was not the case for Malta where membership saw greater involvement for public servants in policy making but no increase in actual power due to a heavy centralisation of decision-making which empowered the political class. Where size appears to have played a role in the country's Europeanization experience was in terms of how that centralisation process has allowed the government to control the monitoring of its implementation of EU policy by third parties, including the Commission.

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“…Previous studies had shown that although a number of international tourists visited or resided temporarily in Marsascala, it was mainly domestic tourism which was responsible for the population increase felt mostly during the summer months (Brincat, 2002). In the 2000s, the locality started to witness a decline in tourism, and this was attributed to a number of factors including the treatment of waste on the outskirts of Marsascala (Azzopardi, 2007), which was itself mired in political controversy (Aquilina, 2011).…”

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Tourism and Urban Development: The Case of a Coastal Village in a Small Island State

Agius,

Briguglio

2024

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This paper discusses how Marsascala, a coastal town in Malta, has been urbanized over the years, with particular attention to the development of the tourist industry. In this regard, Bruce Young’s (1983) “general model of the process of ‘touristization’ and landscape change” is engaged with in conjunction with other conceptualisations of tourism and urban development. This paper contributes to the following sustainable development goals respectively, 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing); 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth); 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities); 14 (Life Below Water); and 15 (Life on Land), in particular with respect to quality of life, urbanization and respective social, environmental, and economic impacts, and through respective recommendations for a sustainable tourism in Marsascala and similar localities.

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Social Policies in Malta

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Three Women, Three Generations: An In-Depth Case Study of Language Retention and Shift in One Family from the Maltese Australian Community in Melbourne

Three Women, Three Generations: An In-Depth Case Study of Language Retention and Shift in One Family from the Maltese Australian Community in Melbourne

Maltas Europeanization experience: How smallness enables a state to minimise the monitoring of its implementation of EU policy by third parties

Tourism and Urban Development: The Case of a Coastal Village in a Small Island State

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