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Andreas comes from Albania ; he was born in 1954 at Tirana and came in Greece for the first time in 1994. At the time of the interview his worked as a 'Unemployed'.
Interview date: 14/04/2005
Researcher who did the interview: Lambrini Styliou
Subfield of the interview: Historical culture
The interview was conducted at the informant´s home. Andreas is married and has two children. He has completed medical school and in Albania he was working as a doctor. When he came to Greece he stayed first in Athens. After one year he decided to move with his family to Volos. Until recently he had been working as a doctor (only in night shifts) in a nursing home. However, some time before the interview he was fired. He wasn´t looking for another job yet since he was thinking of returning to Albania. Some of the main issues that come up during the interview concern: his family history, the communist period and Andreas´s severe criticism of the regime, his first settlement period in Greece, his work in Greece and the racist attitudes he had to deal with because of his nationality, certain discrimination incidents, his decision to return to Albania and the reasons for this.
