ABSTRACT
Based on 135 interviews with three of the main immigrant nationalities in Athens, including Albanians, Egyptians and Filipinos, this article explores immigrants’ ‘place’ in the city. After brief sections on the new trends of immigration to Greece, the nature of Athens as a southern European city and the methodology of the research, the empirical material of the paper is presented in three main parts: immigrants’ experiences of work and the labour market in Athens; the significance of space and place for the immigrants; and their living and housing arrangements. Each of these dimensions of work, space and housing acts to confirm immigrants’ social exclusion in the city, reinforced by their undocumented or ‘illegal’ status. The concluding section of the paper attempts to situate migrants in the economy and society of Athens at a more theoretical level.
