Immigrants of Athens

They are the so-called imported cheap labor. But as years pass by the 900.000 immigrants, 8.5% of the population, who have fled to Greece in search of work and a better standard of living, have managed to climb up the work chain, and to conquer a significant sector of today’s Greek economy. Albanians, Bulgarians, Rumanians, Georgians, Pakistani and many more nationalities have given a vital boost to the suffering Greek economy by simply doing the "dirty job", from construction building and house cleaning to street sweeping and hotel laundry. Yet many of them are still working illegally.