post war immigration waves in greece

By Migration Timeline

  • World War 2

    Greece is one of the main contributors to migrations from agricultural economies in the Mediterrenean industrialized countries of northern Europe or across the Atlantic.

  • Civil War in Greece

    Over 160.000 Greeks went to Australia, mostly to Victoria. In the period of 1955 till 1982, Greeks immigrants remittances represented 4-5% of yearly gross national income as well as the 1/3 of the undocumented resources in Greece.

  • Dictatorship of George Papadopoulos