PRESS RELEASE-INVITATION | “Essential yet Unseen: Shedding Light on the Working Conditions of Migrants”

Posted on Wednesday February 5th, 2025

Discussion and Presentation of research

SolidarityNow and Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality and Diversity invite you to a Roundtable, which will take place on Friday 14 February 2025, at 11:00, at the Athens Solidarity Center (2 Domokou Str.). The purpose of the event is to present the results of the research carried out in the framework of the project Revealing the Unseen Migrant Workers.

The Roundtable will be attended by:

  • Apostolos Kapsalis, Assistant Professor, Panteion University
  • Vassilis Kerasiotis, Attorney, Professor of Law, Panteion University, PhD, Lawyer
  • Yannis Michalas, Special Inspector of Labour Relations of the SEPA DYPA
  • Adla Sasati, Director of the Office of the Migrants Forum
  • Angeliki Serafeim, Legal Advisor for the Protection of Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings, General Secretariat for Vulnerable Citizens & Institutional Protection
  • Theodora Stathopoulou, Head of the Department for the Support of Greek Workers Abroad and Equal Treatment at Work, Ministry of Labour
  • Panagiotis Psathas, Head of the Department of Support & Social Integration of Migrants & Refugees, Department of Social Solidarity, Municipality of Athens

A few words about the project and the research

The Revealing the Unseen Migrant Workers* project was launched in December 2023 with the aim of highlighting the precarious working conditions, undeclared work, labor exploitation, as well as the inequalities and discrimination faced by migrant workers in Greece.

The research was carried out with the participation of 228 respondents in Athens and Thessaloniki and offers a comprehensive picture of the reality experienced by migrants in the Greek labor market.

The event aims to open a meaningful dialogue on the institutional protection of migrant workers’ rights and the promotion of solutions that will contribute to reducing inequalities.

The presentation of the research will be available in print and digital format and will be posted on the organizations’ websites.

The event is open to the public.

* The “Revealing the Unseen Migrant Workers” project is implemented jointly by Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality and Diversity and SolidarityNow with the support from the PICUM-Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants’ grant programme on labour rights and labour migration, funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.