Stateless in Tripoli: the Maltese trapped between Britain and Italy

Hundreds of ‘illegitimate’ Maltese children became stateless and an alien minority in 1920s Libya due to a clash of marriage laws, a study on the Maltese diaspora at the time has shown.It sheds light on the legal limbo faced by a generation of Maltese in Tripoli caught between British loyalty and Italian rule, as Anglo-Italian...