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Anieza comes from Albania ; she was born in 1964 at Permet and came in Greece for the first time in 1993. At the time of the interview her worked as a 'Domestic helper'.
Interview date: 24/07/2005
Researcher who did the interview: Lambrini Styliou
Subfield of the interview: Historical culture
The interview was conducted at Anieza´s home. In Albania her father was a teacher and her mother a factory worker. Anieza studied in the Teachers´ Training College of Tirana and she worked as a teacher in Tepelen. She came to Greece in 1993 after obtaining a tourist visa. She and her family obtained legal status in 1998. She has two children; her daughter was born in Albania and her son in Greece. Anieza occasionally works as a domestic helper and a caregiver for the elderly. During the interview she speaks with nostalgia about her school days and in particular about communist celebrations such as Teacher´s Day. She talks about her parents´ lives before they got married and describes how she first met her husband. She talks about the communist period, gender relations at that time, the social control exercised on girls, and about the lack of sexual education. She identifies important differences between Albanian and the Greek women in relation to emancipation and leisure activities. She underlines racist attitudes that she and her family have faced over time. In addition, she talks about religion and religious practices under the communist regime and about her and her children´s baptisms in Greece.
