Publications

Immigration-integration of migrants

Vasileios Pantazis

University of Thessaly, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Department of early childhood education

Vollos, 2008

Report

Greek

English

Integration of immigrants students

Host countries reveals a complicated , often difficult to forecast immigration status for the individual citizen.
Nationals of an unfamiliar cultural cycle meet "locals" and "foreigners". Many of the "locals" consider this fact as cultural enrichment, contrary others perceive the demographic changes of the last decades as a threat and react with hostility, violence, hatred and fear against the "foreign".
The Greece, the country of dispatch manpower , since the late 1980s began to become a country of immigration.
With the arrival of hundreds of thousands of economic migrants and political refugees - the beginning towards the rest of Europe , then with a clear and obvious intention to settle permanently in Greece, changed "internal balances and social balance" of the country.
The sociocultural changes in Greek society is surely affected and the Greek school .

This report focuses on the multifaceted issue of modern migration and integration processes of immigrants and children of immigrants in Greek society and the Greek school.

www.1169.syzefxis.gov.gr/syn/7/pantazis.doc‎

Spiros Sirmakessis

Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece

Professor