Greece
More than 400,000 Greeks migrated
The economic crisis crippling Greece and still has devastating consequences, which are gradually becoming visible. This is because, unlike in earlier waves of Emigration of academics and skilled workers to go this time in droves.
Because of the severe financial crisis least 427,000 Greeks to leave their country and work abroad, looking for. Since 2013, more than 100,000 people from walking even a year. It is the third large wave of emigration within a good 100 years. Since 1907, nearly 1.8 million people have left in search of a better life in the Greek Mediterranean sun. This results from a study of the Greek Central Bank (Bank of Greece), which was published in the conservative Athenian tradition of the newspaper “Kathimerini”.
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Unlike before, this time it is a so-called “brain drain”: There are mainly Doctors and engineers, as well as other well-educated young people to return home to the back. For the training of this group of academics and skilled workers, the Greek state has spent a lot of money. The majority of them go to the UK, Germany and the United Arab Emirates, says the report, with the title “escape of human capital: Contemporary migration propensity of the Greeks in the crisis”.
No end in sight
An end to the wave of emigration is not in sight, writes the author of the study, the Economist Sophia Lazaretou. Reason: unemployment among young people exceeds 50 percent. Bad as the Situation is for the other Greeks. Almost one in four has no Job.
The location for many well-educated young people is miserable. Who makes in Athens, a round, sees the “lost Generation” anywhere. She is working in cafes, Bars and taverns – usually black and not earn more than 400 euros a month. Some are even forced to work only for the tips of the customers. Control of the Ministry of labour, they set down at a table and pretend you are customer.
“Who can,”
Whole families live from the soup kitchens of the Church and the cities. Some have even as the only income is the pension of the grandfather and the grandmother. And were cut again in June. “Who can,” says Giorgos Tagaris, a 52-year-old doctor from the port city of Patras. Alone in his hospital had emigrated in the past four years and 17 Doctors. Only four new. “The state needs to save, and we are working double and triple,” he says. He can’t because he has children that go to school.
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This latest wave of emigration is the third since the beginning of the 20th century. Century. Between 1907 and 1917, emigrated almost 400,000 Greeks, mainly in the USA, Canada, South Africa and Brazil. The second wave came in the 60s and 70s of the last century. At that time wandered close to a Million of Greeks, mainly to Germany and Belgium. In both waves there were auxiliary forces or impoverished farmers, said the study by the Central Bank.
kle/uh (dpa, www.kathimerini.gr/)