Transitioning strategies of economic survival: Romanian migration during the transition process
Résumé
Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted between 1998 and 2003 on Romanian economic migrants, this paper proposes an analysis of the role of temporary migration within the transition process in Romania. This article first addresses the national context from which these migrations emerged, considering the hypothesis that this transnational activity is merely a new form of the numerous survival strategies used by Romanians to resist to the economic depression which has ensued since the 1989 Revolution. Furthermore, we postulate that these new economic strategies are the prolongation and modernization of informal activities developed during communist times. We suggest, in a second section, that migrations may play in favour of the transition process. Although Romanian migrations have long been considered a problem in terms of the process of EU accession, Romanian migrants participate in many ways in the economic restructuring of their homeland. We shall show that by investing remittances in Romania and developing transnational culture and networks, they actually accelerate the transformations of the country toward European lifestyles and standards.
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Sociologie
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