According to official Greek statistics, there were 5,826 Filipinos in Greece in 1991, which declined to 2,000 by 1996.
[1][2] The Philippine community have set up a school for their children in downtown Athens.
[3] A large proportion are women (81% as of 1999[update]), who generally find employment as domestic workers.
[4] The association between Filipinas and domestic work is so strong that a Greek dictionary published in 1998 even defined "Filippineza", a term which literally means Filipina, to be "a domestic worker from the Philippines or a person who performs non-essential auxiliary tasks".
Migrants and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs protested to the Greek government about the dictionary.