Abstract
This review essay attempts to analyze the portraits of foreigners and migrants currently circulating in Greek media and popular culture. While Greece is still largely a culturally homogeneous country, Poles, Albanians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Russians, Kurds, Middle-Easterners, Africans, and people from as far as the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka mingle with the local population, especially in the urban "melting pot" of Greece's big cities. These immigrants have to cope with poor language skills, discrimination in housing and labor markets, overcrowded living conditions, and intra-ethnic marginalization. The essay suggests that the study of migration as "local and global historical encounters" should avoid the limited conceptual apparatus offered by the notion of culture as a shared tradition within a given group. Such ethno-national labels create structurally opposed groups of "us" and "them" and take our attention away from the everyday encounters with power experienced by migrants throughout the world, regardless of national ascription.
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