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Voula comes from Albania ; she was born in 1983 at Permet and came in Greece for the first time in 1993. At the time of the interview her worked as a 'University student'.
Interview date: 15/12/2005
Researcher who did the interview: Raymond Alvanos
Subfield of the interview: Labor
In Albania Voula´s father was a civil engineer and her mother was an agronomist. Currently in Greece her father is a construction worker and her mother a domestic worker. Her father was the first of the family to come to Greece (illegally in 1991). In 1993 she and her mother joined him, after having obtained tourist visas. She was immediately enrolled in the sixth grade in school. She notes that she had a hard time adjusting. After she finished high school, she didn´t succeed in entrance exams for Greek university. So, she enrolled in the University of Elbasan where she studies economics. That´s why she travels there often with her fiance who also is a student in the same university. She has never worked on a regular basis, but she has often helped her parents in different jobs they have done. Some of the main issues discussed in her interview are: her relation to religion, the problems of racism and discrimination she faced in school, her participation in the Albanian migrants´ association "Illyria" where she has assumed many responsibilities. Her dream is to find a job related to her studies either here or in Albania. She is very happy every time she returns to Albania because she sees her friends and relatives there.
