With the occasion of the municipal elections in Oct 15, 2006, in Greece, we the immigrants that live and give birth in Greece publicized out struggle for the provision of birth certificates for our children that are born in Greece.
The situation is tragic. The Greek authorities do not give a birth certificate to immigrant children.
In all the planet and in all over Europe, there is no other country that denies this obvious elementary right. Thus Greece constitutes a sad world wide exception. This denial has devastating effects: today the second-generation immigrant children in Greece are stateless and are forced to live in social exclusion. That is, we can see a extreme social problem building up, that in the future could lead to explosive situations like the one witnessed last year in France… (more…)
