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In Greece, up to 200.000 children and young adults born to immigrant parents are left “stateless”, considered and treated as “aliens” with no official documentation and no rights at all. Those children, born or raised in Greece, within the European Union, have no access to a formal citizenship, providing them with the basic means to get a sense of belonging and build a life filled with rights and duties like regular people.

We are Generation 2.0, a collective of young people of both migrant and Greek background standing up for one another and our common belief that all of us, no matter where we trace our origin, have the right to become citizens of the country we were either born and/or raised.

We stand up for our right to be all equal citizens of the country we were born and raised.

Sign the petition to challenge Europe and the Greek Government for access on citizenship to all children born and/or raised in Greece.

In most EU countries, legal recognition (citizenship acquisition) is given, yet in Greece, this matter is still a taboo subject. At the moment there are up to 200.000 children and young adults born to immigrant parents. The State is denying access to citizenship to these children of migrant background, depriving them of their basic rights and instantly making people born and raised on Greek soil foreigners by default.

Some of the greatest problems we face, as youth of migrant background in Greece are racism and all sorts of discrimination that are directly related to our precarious legal status.

However, the greatest problem we face is visibility, or rather, the lack of it. In other words, children of migrant background are invisible both to the State and to society. At the moment, there is no legislation on citizenship acquisition for the children of migrant origin, except by naturalization. Act 3838/2010 that was adopted by the Greek Parliament in 2010 was considered anti-constitutional, and in 2013, the State Council overturned the articles that provided a path to citizenship acquisition. Moreover, the majority of Greek society is not only unaware of the problems we face, but more importantly, that we even exist. In other words, we are seen not as Greek youth with a migrant background but as foreigners who do not belong to Greek society as a whole.

What we are fighting for is our right to be recognized as Greek citizens.

SIGN HERE

– GR –

Περίπου 200.000 παιδιά είναι γεννημένα και μεγαλωμένα στην Ελλάδα από μετανάστες γονείς. Τα παιδιά αυτά είναι παιδιά χωρίς πατρίδα από τη στιγμή που δεν αναγνωρίζονται επίσημα από το ελληνικό κράτος το οποίο τους αρνείται την ιθαγένεια. Το γεγονός αυτό έχει ως συνέπεια την περιθωριοποίηση τους όχι μόνο γιατί δεν έχουν πρόσβαση σε δικαιώματα αλλά κυρίως γιατί τους αρνείται την αίσθηση του ανήκειν στην ελληνική κοινωνία.

Το Generation 2.0 είναι μια συλλογικότητα την οποία απαρτίζουν νέοι μεταναστευτικής αλλά και ελληνικής καταγωγής. Στηρίζουμε ο ένας τον άλλο πιστεύοντας ότι όλοι μας, ανεξάρτητα από το που κατάγονται οι γονείς μας έχουμε το δικαίωμα να είμαστε πολίτες της χώρας στην οποία γεννηθήκαμε και/ή μεγαλώσαμε.

Διεκδικούμε για το δικαίωμα να είμαστε πολίτες της χώρας στην οποία γεννηθήκαμε και/ή μεγαλώσαμε.

Μαζεύουμε υπογραφές για να δημοσιοποιήσουμε το θέμα στην Ευρώπη και να πιέσουμε την Ελληνική Κυβέρνηση να εξασφαλίσει την πρόσβαση στην ιθαγένεια για όλα τα παιδιά που έχουν γεννηθεί ή/και μεγαλώσει στην Ελλάδα.