NEWS | Wednesday, 04 March 2009

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Social policy minister John Dalli told parliament that 1,008 persons with either refugee status or temporary humanitarian protection, as well as other asylum seekers, were working legally.
The figure corresponds to roughly 0.2% of the Maltese population.
There are currently 2,302 detained migrants in closed centres and 2,194 asylum seekers and migrants with some form of protection living inside open centres, Dalli said. Another 766 asylum seekers and migrants given protection, live in private residences.
The minister also said that 207 detainees had escaped migrant reception centres in the past 12 months, with 56 being re-arrested.

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