ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the diaspora simply takes the space, literally elbows out of the picture the non-ethnic immigrants who have lived in Greece since the 1990s. It turns to the two most acclaimed recent Greek films on immigration: Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos and From the Edge of the City by Constantine Giannaris. The chapter theorises the films' complex take on the relationship between Greekness, national culture and discourses about migration. The conceptual border that is thus enforced between Migrant Us' and Immigrant Them' eventually produces very topical and persistent, if at times unnoticed, ideological work. It is in this context that the typified figure of the Greek migrant comes to play a key role in the projection of a homogeneous, solid and resilient Greek identity. The use of the immigrant boy as a vessel of authentic' Greek culture taps into the larger discourse that has related co-ethnic repatriates with the notion of deep Greekness.
