UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Institute of Maltese Studies
M.A. in Maltese Studies
January/February 2010 Session of Examinations
IMS5005 – Maltese Emigration and Migrant
Settlement
Friday, 29th January 2010
Duration: 3 hours
16.45hrs – 19.45hrs
Please answer any THREE questions.
1.
“To what extent could the Maltese mercantile diaspora in eighteenth-century Spain
be considered the precursor of the larger migration to North Africa in the nineteenth
century?”
2.
Before the British connection from 1800 the Maltese did not need to leave their
homes in large numbers. Give your reasons for such a change.
3.
Henry Casolani is reputed to have helped organize what had previously been
considered as haphazard emigration. How did he achieve this?
4.
Would you agree that the Language Question was used by the Reformist politicians
to further their aim in directing the flow of emigration from Malta to the Dominions
of the British Empire?
5.
Why was the document signed in 1948 known as the Australia-Malta Passage
Assistance Agreement so important in the development of the Maltese migratory
movement towards Australia? Discuss the part played by Minister John J. Cole.
6.
‘These stars are not my stars’. Discuss this observation with regard to the
difficulties of integration in a foreign land.
Page 1 of 2
7.
How far and in what ways was Maltese migrant settlement conditioned by the sway
of empires?
8.
‘Parlez Maltais!’ Situate and explain this apparently contradictory exhortation.
9.
Profile some instances of immigration waves in Malta noting the contrasts between
them.
Page 2 of 2