From Migrant to Citizens: Greek Migration in Australia and Canada - Tamis, Anastasios M.; Gavaki, Efrosini

As New; The appearance of this book constitutes a milestone in the intensifying scholarly study of the Hellenic Diaspora and settlements in the New Worlds of the Atlantic and the Pacific ... As pointed out by Tamis and Gavaki, by the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century some 55 million Europeans had left Europe to go elsewhere. And, today, the growing demographic pressures, primarily in Asia, Africa, and Carribean are such that immigration is now a phenomenon of gigantic proportions, the poor or persecuted seeking salvation in a kind global immigration. Thus, our authors see the problem within its broader context. Countries of southern Europe, which sought to relieve their demographic, economic and political pressures by sending their sons and daughters to foreign lands, have ceased to be major contributors to the flux of immigration and have become, in their turn, receptacles of the immigration of the poor and persecuted. All this, and indeed much more, is carefully analysed in the work of Professors Tamis and Gavaki.
As New
Soft cover
National Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research
2002
Melbourne, Australia