ABSTRACT
The visitations of Albanians found Greeks at the cusp of history. Greeks locked their homes as dangerous borders crept towards their private spaces. Albanian women, as sex and agricultural workers, and Albanian meat products were the bearers of infection, disease, and contamination. The Albanian delegate to the meetings, a microbiologist, rose and began speaking about viruses that cannot be recognized and thus properly treated in Albania, for Albanians sent back to their homeland by Greece and Italy are often the carriers of new viruses. In the 1990s, Albanians, myth or reality, were conceived in Greece as national violators and often stigmatized as carriers of deadly viruses. Just as Albanian men are characterized as thieves and violators of property, women become violators of the domestic space and, through sexual and medical imagery, of the male body itself. Albanian and Eastern European women have been imported into Greece as sexual and labor objects in a variety of ways.
