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Andrina

Andrina comes from Albania ; she was born in 1965 at Tirana and came in Greece for the first time in 1991. At the time of the interview her worked as a 'Cleaner'.

Interview date: 04/02/2006

Researcher who did the interview: Raymond Alvanos

Subfield of the interview: Transcultural communication

Summary:

The interview was conducted in the university building, which is also Andrina´s place of work. Andrina was born in Tirana, but her parents come from Agioi Saranda. She has studied economics and in Albania she was working as an accountant in a wholesale store. At some point, a relative suggested to her to get married to a Greek man he knew. She accepted and in 1991 she left Albania hoping for a better life in Greece. Today she has one child and works as a cleaner. Some of the main issues discussed in the interview concern: her decision to migrate, her marriage, her first settlement period in Greece, her friends and acquaintances, her distancing from her country of origin, the comparison of South and North Albania, her northern Epirot origins, the intellectual life in Albania during the communist period, her modes of entertainment here, her desire to stay in Greece.

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