Greek Brides

The amazing story of the 900 Greek brides who traveled to Australia over sixty years ago in 1957 aboard the ship Begona to meet their future husbands was the subject of a mini-documentary by the Australian television network SBS. Journalist...

The book of Dr Panayota Nazou, "“Greek ‘Proxy Brides’ in Australia: From Life Experience to Artistic Expression” (1950-1975)" is expected to shed some light on brides of arranged marriages in the Greek Diaspora, as well as the social life...

Litsa Goga’s new book “Some Truths” is considered to be a document of the early years of the massive postwar immigration to Australia. The book was recently launched in Melbourne. Litsa Goga was one of the thousands of "brides"...

Illegal immigrants in the UK are hiring Greek women in need of money to marry them in order to get a residence permit and claim unemployment allowances, as revealed by a recent report of UK daily The Sun. The  immigrants...