Editing Demographics of Greece (section)

===Illegal immigration===
Greece has received many [[illegal immigration to Greece|illegal immigrants]] beginning in the 1990s and continuing during the 2000s and 2010s. Migrants make use of the many islands in the [[Aegean Sea]], directly west of Turkey. A spokesman for the [[European Union]]'s border control agency said that the Greek–Albanian border is "one of Europe's worst-affected external land borders." Migrants across the [[Evros (regional unit)|Evros]] region bordering Turkey face land-mines. Principal illegal immigrants include Albanians, Pakistanis, Kurds, Afghans, Iraqis and Somalis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rieas.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=812&Itemid=89|title=Destabilization Through Illegal Immigration in Greece|publisher=Research Institute for European and American Analysis|date=2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721083021/http://rieas.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=812&Itemid=89|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Niki|last=Kitsantonis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/world/europe/04iht-migrate.4.7756077.html|title=Greece struggles to curb influx of illegal immigrants|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 October 2007|access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref>