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Stavros comes from Albania ; he was born in 1960 at Agioi Saranda and came in Greece for the first time in 1995. At the time of the interview his worked as a 'Construction worker'.
Interview date: 31/01/2005
Researcher who did the interview: Pothiti Hatzaroula
Subfield of the interview: Labor
Stavros is married and has two children. In Albania he had attended a foresters´ school and was working in the forest service. When he came to Greece he went directly to the town of Aigio in the Peloponnese, where he had some friends. He first worked at an oil-press, and then he did agricultural work. He also worked as a house-painter´s apprentice and as a waiter. Four years since he came to Greece he went into a partnership with his brother and two other Albanians and they set up their own construction team. At that time his wife also came to Greece and they decided to move to Volos, where her brother was living. In Volos he immediately found a job as a construction worker without, though, revealing to his employer that he is from Albania. He is in the same job up to the present. He is very pleased and he is now friends with his employer, who trusts him very much. He would like to go and live in America because, according to what his sister who lives there tells him, the earnings and life conditions are better. Some of the main issues discussed in the interview concern: his family in Albania, his views on Hoxha´s rule and on living conditions during that period, the relations between Greek and Albanian people, migration policy, his views on social relations, his friends, his children and the second generation of migrants.
