Maltese people in the United Kingdom

[3] After 1962, Maltese people required vouchers to migrate to the UK, but these were relatively easy to obtain from the Emigration Department until 1971.

The Emigration Department would arrange for prospective migrants to be interviewed by British firms in order to allow their passage to the UK to fill labour shortages.

British statistics, meanwhile, suggest that 8,110 Maltese migrants arrived in the same period, excluding students, diplomats, seamen, visitors and their families.

This year saw 70 Maltese women recruited to work in British fruit and vegetable canneries for six months.

By 1967–69, 250 Maltese people per year were moving to the UK for seasonal work, mostly in the canning, ice cream manufacture and hotel and catering sectors.

The seasonal migration of female workers was organised by the Emigrants' Commission of the Catholic Church in Malta.