"The Chams? Who are the Chams?" : the discourse of Chameria among Albanian migrants and the indigenous Albanians in the Northern Greece

Chameria is the region in the Northern Greece that was inhabited by Albanian ethnic minority after the Second World War. It is often considered as the part of so-called Ethnic Albania side by side with Kosovo, Preševo valley (in Serbia), South Montenegro and Western Macedonia. Nationalistic politicians, journalists and historians create many myths of Chameria. The expedition of graduated students of Perm State and Sankt-Petersburg State Universities was organized in the main centers of historic Chameira in August 2009. The strictly Greek ethnic and national identity of Albanian-Greek bilingual population was fixed. Albanian migrants in Greece consider the region as alien land. These facts contradict the discourse of Chameria not only in political texts, but also in academic albanological ones.