I am from Athens, Greece. I am 24 years of old. I grew up with a nanny from Philippines. During my adolescence I played at school with Albanian immigrant kids and now I have my car windscreen cleaned on the streets by immigrants from Pakistan. My grand-mother is cared for by an immigrant woman from Belarus. If I get on the bus, very rarely I might hear someone talking in Greek. In the taxi I might have a xenophobic conversation with the Greek driver. The Greek term of Philoxenia that stands for hospitality seems to be replaced by the term Xenophobia. Immigrants in Greece exist everywhere, but no one knows where. No one talks about them. They are ignored. The Greek policy makers remember them when they talk about criminality and the perils of social instability. From time to time, the Greek state has implemented legalization programs as an ex post measure to deal with the massive illegal influx of immigrants. The policies end there. Any policies concerning integration and the treatment of asylum seekers are absent. Greece has been accused of mistreating asylum seekers, poor and sometimes illegal detention and deportation practices. Recently the Supreme Court of Germany refused the re-admission of an Iraqi asylum seeker in Greece, on the basis that his human rights are not going to be respected by the state and most probably he would end up homeless. The Iraqi asylum seeker had initially applied for asylum in Greece and had been rejected. On the following, he took refuge in Germany, where his application was accepted. According to the Dublin Convention the asylum holder should have been returned to the first safe country of entry, which is Greece. But, the German Supreme Court claimed that such a measure would actually violate the immigrant’s human rights. The conditions of the reception centre for asylum seekers and illegal immigrants in Lesbos island in Greece are inacceptable. The centre has a capacity of 300 people but it accommodates over 800 people, among them women and minors. Amnesty International reported that during July forced evictions took place in Patras, one of the biggest ports of Greece. 300 people of Afghan origin including asylum-seekers and irregular migrants were evicted from their makeshift homes in the campsite of Patras which had been occupied for almost 13 years. Except for the small number of immigrants that had legal documents proving their asylum claim, around 80 to 100 individuals evicted from the campsite resorted to living in fields close to Patras without shelter or access to water, sanitation and medical assistance. During the same period, around 600 persons, including irregular migrants and potentially asylum-seekers which had lived for the last three years in the disused courthouse in the centre of Athens in squalid conditions with no water, electricity or proper sanitation, were also evicted. Finally, massive deportations are taking place during the night on the northern border of Greece. While Greece needs more assistance and resources from the European Union to manage its migration flows, the European Union turns its back to the situation and leaves Greece to do its dirty work. Cooperation with Turkey is not existent, who many times refuses to re-admit asylum seekers despite the large funds it is receiving from European Union for that purpose. The lack of deliberative debate concerning these issues, involving immigrants, government, non-governmental organization and Greek citizens has only led to a deterioration in the situation. There is no pressure for any action. On a governmental level, the new European Immigration Policies are hardly mentioned. The question how Greece implements them are strategically avoided. Only the communist party seems to pay attention to them, denouncing their “capitalist exploitation”, expressing some sort of idealism, reminding us of the noble ages of civil activism. On the other hand, the civil society debate is limited to illegal migration and border controls measures. It lacks any kind of imagination. In the Greek mind, immigrant equals illegal immigrant. The Greek press as well focuses on general theoretic aspects of immigration and its impact, as if immigration is something we find only in books. If somebody is lucky enough, he may find a paragraph or two mentioning the convictions of Greece by the European Commission, concerning the implementation of European Immigration Laws. No further elaboration, no comments. Nobody talks about immigrant rights and integration measures in Greece. Nobody talks about immigrant contribution in the Greek society. Greece is denying to this new Odysseus his Ithaca.