#Crowdfunding a Maltese passport for an asylum seeker – chronicle of an aborted yet fertile campaign
In response to Malta’s plans to offer citizenship to “ultra-high net worth individuals” in return for a one-time ‘donation’ of €650,000, Antoine Cassar, one of the editors of Le monde n’est pas rond, created a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a Maltese passport for someone who badly needs it: a rejected asylum seeker, who has been stuck in Malta for years, with no work permit, and no permission to leave the island in search of better opportunities further north. Due to recent changes in the Maltese scheme, the campaign was never launched, but the underlying message has been made clear both in Malta and beyond: 65 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the fundamental rights to nationality, asylum and freedom of movement are as yet far from being universal. Either all citizenships are equally valid, or none are valid at all. On 18th December 2013, Antoine Cassar was interviewed on Radio Canada about the reasons behind the crowdfunding idea.
▻http://mondepasrond.net/2014/01/15/crowdfunding-a-maltese-passport-for-an-asylum-seeker-chronicle-of-an-a
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