Greek Immigrants

The AISI free seminar on September 8 in Athens is a unique opportunity to learn about working and studying in Australia, getting a work visa and immigration information from the experts. With Greece's unemployment rate being the highest in the European...

With a Greek population constantly on the rise, the area of Manitoba in Canada has become a "little Greece." In the last year alone, 50 Greek families have migrated to Manitoba in search of a more prosperous life. The total number of Greeks...

Forty-four years ago Sophie Rizava migrated from Greece to Canada in search of a better life. What she did not know was that luck would strike her much later in the form of a lottery ticket. The Greek grandmother who is...

Around 100,000 Greeks as well as Germans residing in Greece who have in the past worked in Germany, are currently receiving a pension from the German state, while more and more Greeks leaving the country to secure a better...

During the last years, thousands are the Greeks who migrated to Australia due to the ongoing financial crisis, few are those though who came to the “promise land” with proper prior information. For those, the problems began shortly after...

In the first decades following the Second World War, Greeks traveled to Germany organized. They knew that there would be someone to welcome them at the train station, that they would have a house, security and above all a...

The Federal Republic of Germany awarded Greek immigrant Gregores Zarkadas with a Medal of Merit for his contribution in building “bridges” between cultures by helping other immigrants. The Deputy Prime Minister of Hesse state, Jörg-Uwe Hahn, presented Zarkadas with the...

A monument dedicated to Greek immigrants was erected in the monastery of Panagia Kamariani. The monastery is at the top of the Red Hill which overlooks the Port Phillip bay; the port where ships entered carrying thousands of immigrants ...

 The German-Hellenic Business Association DHW undertook the implementation of the program for training young Greek immigrants  in Cologne, Germany. This innovative program called «KAUSA Servicestelle Köln» is exclusively financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany with...

Greek immigrants in Germany are reaching a record number over the last twenty years, as last year, the greatest increase since 1993 corresponding to 4.1% was recorded. As it was announced by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this large increase...