1. Summary

2.  Greece is an ethnically homogeneous state, and throughout the early period of its modern history it experienced emigration far more than immigration.  After 1990 Greece experiences large scale immigration, a large portion of it being illegal.

3.  The fall of the Soviet Union, compounded with other Balkan problems such as the Yugoslav Wars  Political unrest and political uncertainty not only in the Balkans, but throughout other former Eastern Bloc countries as well  Greece’s aging population  Economic prosperity

4.  http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/pls/por tal/docs/PAGE/PGP_PRD_CAT_PREREL/ PGE_CAT_PREREL_YEAR_2006/PGE_CA T_PREREL_YEAR_2006_MONTH_05/3- 19052006-EN-AP.PDF

5.  http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Fr ance_Elections050307.pdf