Like Ali.Īvocados until the last drop Manolada’s “red gold”Īlthough his soft voice, facial features and body type suggest that he may be much younger, Ali tells Solomon that he’s 17 years old. Next to the Greek shops, the abandoned village houses and the two-story dwellings with large yards – a community has developed, people who live in dilapidated farmhouses and makeshift camps, well-hidden from the main streets.They mostly live without papers, undocumented, invisible to the Greek state. Although it’s Sunday morning, there’s not much attendance at the church in the center of the village, rather all the activity is outside the neighboring betting shop, where a group of men of Indian descent are gathered, with betting slips in their hands. But the actual number of people living in the area is much higher.Īs we drive along the road that connects the villages, we arrive at Nea Manolada. At that time, Manolada had a population of 844, Lappas 1,000, and Neo Vouprasio 128. The most recent census in Greece took place in 2011. “Manolada” refers to the broader area in the prefecture of Ilia in the Peloponnese, about 40 kilometers west of Patras, which includes the villages of Manolada, Nea Manolada, Neo Vouprasio, Lappa, and Varda. This area is Manolada, in the Peloponnese. There is one area, however, where this “distortion” has already occurred, but it is a welcome change and for years it has become a necessary one. There are people, in all regions of Greece, who fear that local populations will become “distorted” by the arrival of refugees and immigrants. The shop owners, who are from Bangladesh, are well aware of the needs of their consumers: the community of thousands of their fellow migrant land workers, who live in the area and work in the strawberry fields. The signs on the few shops − cafes, souvlaki joints, bakeries − written in Greek, intermingle with other shop signs in Bengali. The shops along the main road of Lappa, a small village in the northwestern Peloponnese, differ from the shops you’d find in other provincial areas in Greece.
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