Another chapter in the Greek emigration history to Australia – the 1960’s, when some 4,000 domestic workers who left their homeland to find a new life – is being opened.
The Domestic Worker Agreement was a decision of the European Immigration Council, known as I.C.E.M, in cooperation with Australian States and was signed by the then Immigration Minister, Alexander Rusesell (Alick) Downer, who had visited Athens in 1959.
At first, the program was organized in a beneficial way for both Greece and Australia but there is little information today about these women who migrated from Greece to Australia through the program.
Researcher Maria Palaktsoglou, from Flinders University of South Australia, is conducting research looking for people who have any information about these women. She wants to record the names of the migrants as well as their background and experiences. Palaktsoglou is asking for anyone who has information to contact her at: maria.palaktsoglou@flinders.edu.au. The research has been sanctioned by Flinders University Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee, project no 5556.
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