Greece is a country that prides itself on its hospitality. But over the past decade it has become decidedly inhospitable for some foreigners. While tourists are generally welcome, migrants and asylum seekers face an increasingly hostile environment in which they risk detention in inhuman and degrading conditions, destitution, and xenophobic violence., This report is based on Human Rights Watch research in Athens in November-December 2011 and January and May 2012. We chose to focus on Athens because background research, including media monitoring and exchanges with NGOs in Greece, indicated that the problem of racist and xenophobic violence was most acute in the capital. While the geographical scope of this research and available data do not allow us to draw any conclusions about the extent of xenophobic violence in the rest of the country, we believe lessons can be drawn for actions on a national scale to arrest increasing xenophobia., We interviewed 79 migrants, asylum seekers and legal foreign residents of Greece. They came from a variety of countries, including Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia, and Sudan. Fifty-nine interviewees had experienced an attack, including 51 serious attacks, or escaped unharmed from an attempted attack. Twenty interviewees had not experienced incidents relevant to the focus of this report, though four had witnessed attacks.