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This paper discusses current challenges of the welfare regime in Romania, from the standpoint of postmodern cultural changes that started to affect society. Acording to the main argument, Romania is intertwined with other societies that have already underwent through fundamental changes due to increasing postmodern cultural orientation. Such process comes together with a need for individualization of intervention, due to individualization of needs. Delocalization and denormalization overlap individualization, in a world dominated by mobilities. The paper delves with the basic characteristics of these changes and shows how they already affect or may affect Romania in the near future, in specific domains such as family, education, or housing. International migration is in particular addressed, since Romania is experiencing a large and long-lasting out-migration flow. Changes in technologies are used as material basis for future changes, while cultural preferences and their changes are the red line for all subchapters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE PAPER AIMS AT PRESENTING ASPECTS CONCERNING THE TRANSORMATIONS OF MIGRATION IN THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY, NEVERTHELESS WITHOUT PRETENDING TO EXHAUST THE SUBJECT MATTER AT ALL THE LEVELS: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL OR DEMOGRAPHIC. I INTEND TO FOCUS ON THE SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES UPON ROMANIANS' LIFE QUALITY AND THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF PARENTS' MOBILITY ON THOSE WHO REMAIN AT HOME. AT THE END OF 2014, ROMANIA IS CHRACTERIZED THROUGH GREAT OUTBOUND MIGRATORY FLUX (ESTIMATES CONSIDER 3 MILLION PEPLE). WE ARE A COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND TRANSIT IN THE MIGRATION DOMAIN, WITH OVER 15% CITIZENS MIGRATED ABROAD. THE ROMANIAN EMIGRANTS HAVE CHOSEN FOR THEIR DESTINATION ITALY (43%) AND SPAIN (30%), BETWEEN 18 AND 39 OF AGE. SPEAKING OF THE REGIONS WITH THE MOST EMIGRANTS, NORTH-EAST, SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH ARE REPRESENTATIVE. HERE POVERTY IS TO BE FOUND AND THE POPULATION IS OLD. PIB IS MUCH UNDER THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. THE MAIN REASON IS THE MASSIVE MIGRATION FROM THE ROMANIAN RURAL REGIONS TOWARDS OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES. IN THESE REGIONS, THE HEALTH SYSTEM AS WELL AS EDUCATION SYSTEM SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF TRAINED INDIVIDUALS WHO PREFER WORKING ABROAD IN THE SAME DOMAINS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper focuses on a brief description of a complex phenomenon that concerns the current multiethnic and multicultural society, that is the linguistic consequences of emigration, particularly regarding the Romanian immigration in Italy. The research is based on the analysis of the written productions of the students native speakers of Romanian language who attended a laboratory of Romanian language offered by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures of the University of Turin, and aims at highlighting the influences exerted by the Italian language on the Romanian language of the mentioned subjects and the dynamics of the Romanian language written and transmitted by these young people, members of the Romanian community in Turin, one of the largest communities of foreign residents in Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the way the workforce migration phenomenon is problematized by non-migrants, more specifically, social actors belonging to various socio-cultural categories, "witnesses" of this phenomenon and of debates in Romanian public space. Starting from positions taken in focus-groups, the analysis highlights discursive mechanisms employed by social actors to appropriate migration as public problem. What meanings of collective identity are negotiated in a debate on workforce migration? This paper, based on Critical Discourse Analysis, first proves that social actors interpret this type of migration by instrumentalizing identitarian discourse: "categories" of migrants are instituted and symbolic inequalities are reproduced in the relationship with "the other". Secondly, social actors recontextualize discourses and cultural stereotypes routinely employed in the political and media sphere regarding workforce migration in the UE, collective identities or belonging practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of the present paper is to reconstruct and analyze phenomena connected to the history of migration and mentalities, and also to the history of the Romanian language starting from the analysis of geographic diffusion of the Romanian family names having the suffix -escu in Germany, based on the telephone books from 2005 and on a special program on computer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Unlike the new age of migration that we are experiencing now, the social mobility specific to the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century may be defined by the expression "one way ticket"; the immigrant, usually a man, used to leave his country of origin and settle for good in his host-country (he did not look for his happiness from state to state, as it happens now). The Romanian migration of that time was directed mainly towards the New World (particularly to the USA, and less to Canada). This paper is an attempt to sketch the image of Romanian emigration by taking into account the peculiarities determined by: emigration causes, geographical predominance, social composition, occupational options in the host-country, and the structure of Romanian immigrant communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The areas of interest of the scholar Adrian Marino significantly enlarge after December '89, allowing him to become closer to a number of problems of the Romanian contemporary society for which he always felt a veritable vocation. The main aim of the paper regards the presentation of these ideas less literary and much closer to the sphere of political sciences. The phenomenon of contemporary migration represents one of those ideas studied and interpreted by Marino, its analysis being subsumed by the author to a larger sphere of socially and anthropologically comments, concerning the complex report established between identity and otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper quantitatively explores the patterns that shape popular conceptions of national belonging in the European Union member states and their implications in terms of public preferences for specific immigration control policies. By using the most recent data from the European Values Study (2008), this paper points to the similarity of the structure of individual conceptions of national belonging in the 27 countries analyzed and identifies three main ways of articulation between representations of nationality and preferences for different immigration control policies: the maximalrestrictionist type, the elective-conditional type and the minimal-liberal type. These types are configured by both the content of "popular" models of national belonging and the salience of specific criteria of national membership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the migrants' propensity to sending money to the origin country. The study is based on data coming from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain. We employ a binary logistic regression model in order to identify the impact of socio-demographical factors on the probability of sending money abroad from Spain, focusing on a large group of respondents, which are Eastern Europe migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Migration is a process which implies long term consequences. The present study targets the migration patterns within the urban areas of Romania, in the wider context of a research project aiming at analyzing the urban dysfunctions in the country, following the general internal migration trends spanning from 1964 to nowadays. The evolution of the cities in the Communist era took place under the influence of forced urbanization and industrialization, both processes blocking the natural dynamics of migration flows, dysfunction which has perpetuated after the fall of the Communist regime too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]