Patterns of Romanian and Bulgarian Migration to Spain

Stanek, Mikołaj

doi:10.1080/09668130903209160

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“…He arrives as a single man, and after a few years, he marries a Moroccan woman on one of his home visits (Lievens 1999), thus reunifying the family (Bertolani et al 2014). For the Romanians, unlike other Romanian migratory flows (Stanek 2009), there is no dominant migration pattern towards Italy: women and men of any marital status may be among the first migrants, but they often include married adults with children who rejoin the rest of their family as soon as they can.…”

Section: Migration Patternsmentioning

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Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy

Sacchetto

Vianello

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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The current economic crisis is worsening migrants' living conditions and thus their social and economic integration into EU countries. However, recent literature has not sufficiently considered the strategies that unemployed migrants adopt to cope with this transformation. This article explores the economic and social impact of the recession on migrant workers. In particular, it analyses the coping strategies of unemployed Moroccan and Romanian migrants in Italy, who are the biggest national groups of foreigners. Drawing on 170 in-depth interviews carried out in one of the most dynamic areas of northeast Italy, we find that Moroccan and Romanian migrants adopt different strategies in order to cope with unemployment: the first suffer more from discrimination than the latter in the labour market but can enjoy the economic and social support of extended family and religious community, while for Romanians, it is easier to find a new job, because they can rely on a more diversified social network. Furthermore, migrants of both national groups rarely return to their country of origin, but Moroccans (non-EU nationals) seem to be geographically more mobile than Romanians (EU nationals), who show a resolve to remain in Italy. Finally, unemployed migrants are minimizing their living costs in a very similar way. This paper also studies other differences among interviewees that arise from their gender, age and family model.

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Section: Migration Patternsmentioning

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Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy

Sacchetto

Vianello

2015

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…Ambos aspectos, en general, modifican la composición de las mujeres migrantes desde el punto de vista reproductivo puesto que se favorece la «importación» de dependientes (tanto de mujeres más jó-venes como más mayores) y de mujeres que emigran por cuestiones estrictamente familiares. En el caso español varios trabajos recientes muestran diferentes procesos de reagrupación familiar según el lugar de procedencia, el sexo o el tiempo de estancia (Stanek 2009;Requena y Sánchez-Domínguez 2011;Reher, Requena y Sánchez-Domínguez 2013).…”

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La interferencia entre el estatus familiar y las características individuales en el nacimiento del primer hijo tras la emigración a España

Poveda¹,

Cebrián-Villar²,

Grande³

et al. 2015

Rev. int. sociol.

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“…This is especially relevant in the case of Bulgaria and Romania which share a relatively recent emigration experience, where circular migration 5 is the norm, leading to strong ties between migrants and the left behinds (Mara & Landesmann, 2013;Stanek, 2009) (Stanek, 2010;Mara & Landesmann, 2013).…”

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Left behind but doing good? Civic engagement in two post-socialist countries

Nikolova

Roman

Zimmermann

2017

Journal of Comparative Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E ABSTRACT Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries *The fall of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe restored ordinary citizens' rights and freedoms and ended their political and social isolation. While the freedom of movement was quickly embraced, civil society revival lagged due to the eroded civic norms, declining social capital, and worsening economic conditions. In this paper, we examine the link between the out-migration of relatives and friends and the pro-social behavior of the left behinds in two post-socialist countries -Bulgaria and Romania -the EU's poorest, unhappiest, and among the most corrupt members. We show that having close contacts abroad is consistently positively associated with civic engagement and that the cultural transmission of norms from abroad could be driving the results. Specifically, the strength of the civic engagement culture of the family or friend's destination matters for the pro-social behavior of respondents in the home countries. Our results imply that the emigration of family and friends may have positive but previously undocumented consequences for the individuals and communities left behind in Bulgaria and Romania. Given civil society's role for development in post-socialist Europe and the socio-economic and institutional challenges that Bulgaria and Romania face compared with the rest of the EU, understanding the channels fostering civil society and wellbeing are important for national and EU policymakers. JEL Classification:I30, I31, F22, P30, Z10

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Patterns of Romanian and Bulgarian Migration to Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy

Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy

La interferencia entre el estatus familiar y las características individuales en el nacimiento del primer hijo tras la emigración a España

Left behind but doing good? Civic engagement in two post-socialist countries

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