Filipinos in Greece
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 2,000 (1996) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
Filipino people, Overseas Filipinos |
Filipinos in Greece consist of migrants from the
working in the country illegally.[1][2] The Philippine community have set up a school for their children in downtown Athens.[3]
A large proportion are women (81% as of 1999[update]), who generally find employment as domestic workers.[4] The association between Filipinas and domestic work is so strong that a Greek dictionary published in 1998 even defined "Filippineza", a term which literally means Filipina, to be "a domestic worker from the Philippines or a person who performs non-essential auxiliary tasks". Migrants and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs protested to the Greek government about the dictionary.[5]
History
Culture
See also
- Greek settlement in the Philippines
- Philippines–Greece relations
Notes
- ^ Iosifides & King 1999, p. 193
- ^ "Imson urges Greece-based OFWs to take advantage of new legalization rules", DOLE News, 2004-06-13, archived from the original on 2016-01-23, retrieved 2009-10-23
- ^ Cañete 2004, p. 135
- ^ Iosifides & King 1999, p. 194
- ^ "Philippines blasts 'Filipina' entry in Greek dictionary", Kyodo News, 1998-08-10, retrieved 2009-10-23 [dead link]
Sources
- Iosifides, Theodoros; King, Russell (1999), "Socio-Spatial Dynamics and Exclusion of Three Immigrant Groups in the Athens Conurbation", in Baldwin-Edwards, Martin; Arango, Joaquín (eds.), Immigrants and the informal economy in Southern Europe, Routledge, pp. 186–204, ISBN 978-0-7146-4925-2. A study of Albanian, Egyptian, and Filipino migrants.
- Cañete, Leodinito Y. (2004), "Education Research with Philippine Communities in Greece: Intricacies and Possibilities", in Mutua, Kagendo; Swadener, Beth Blue (eds.), Decolonizing research in cross-cultural contexts: critical personal narratives, State University of New York Press, pp. 135–146, ISBN 978-0-7914-5979-9
Further reading
- Cañete, Leodinito Y. (2001), "The Philippine community in Greece at the close of the 20th century", in Marvakis, Athanasios (ed.), Μετανάστες στην Ελλάδα/Migrants in Greece, Ellenika Grammata, ISBN 978-960-393-737-1
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