Rusudan on her day off.
Detail from a boarding house for Georgian women in Athens.
It is very common for Georgian women who work as live-in domestic workers to share an apartment and stay there on their days off. That home is like no other. Usually, for six days it is totally empty and quiet, without someone living in. It gets alive only on Sundays. It is a weekly meeting point, a place of their own to stay and relax. It is a Sunday home.
Mariam on her day off at the boarding house in Athens.
Tamara at a friend’s house, during her three months visit in Athens.
Katia playing at home in Athens. Katia learned the Greek language at school, while Katia’s mother, Manana, learned it at work.
Dining table, Katia’s home.
Usually older women or very young women or women whose children live in Georgia, work inside the employer’s house, as live-in domestic workers. Lali, as well as Manana, came to Greece with their family and need to seek out a job that allow them to take care of their family too. At first, Lali applied for asylum. She had to renew her asylum application in a “terrible place”, every six months. Only after five years in Greece she managed to get a residency permit.
Lali with her children at home in Athens.
Lali and a friend drinking at a Georgian restaurant in Athens.
From time to time, Georgian women organize a collective night out to Georgian restaurants. Especially on holidays. It is very important for them to all get together and to share their latest news, to update their network. Usually, there aren’t any men among them and the restaurants get crowded only by women who laugh, dance, drink.
Birthday party at a Georgian restaurant in Athens.
At a Georgian restaurant during a birthday party.
Ana lives in Athens with her daughter.
Ana ‘s kitchen.
Liza playing.
Spending Sunday morning.
Lali’s home in Athens.