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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 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 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]