The Helots of the New Millennium: Ethnic-Greek Albanians and ‘Other’ Albanians in Greece

Since the 1980s, Greece has been faced with two new challenges: first, unplanned, unorganised and uncontrolled influxes of large numbers of economic migrants, political refugees and asylum seekers (Lazaridis 1996; Lazaridis and Romaniszyn 1998); second, a sharp increase in recorded crime ¹ (Karydis 1996). The combination of the two phenomena at a time of economic and social crisis has made the ethnicisation of crime or the criminalisation of migration very appealing.