Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context
This article contributes to the growing debate on reintegration and the positioning of returnees in their home societies. Increasingly, studies focus on returnees’ agency in reintegration processes, their practices of mobility in return and their use of social capital and financial and social remitt...
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| author | Remus Gabriel Anghel Ovidiu Oltean Alina Petronela Silian |
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| description | This article contributes to the growing debate on reintegration and the positioning of returnees in their home societies. Increasingly, studies focus on returnees’ agency in reintegration processes, their practices of mobility in return and their use of social capital and financial and social remittances acquired abroad. Much less analysed is how ethnicity influences such processes of return and experiences of reintegration. In this paper we examine how returnees belonging to different ethnic groups – Germans, Romanians and Roma – reintegrate in a Romanian multi-ethnic context with marked ethnic inequality and lasting segregation. Fieldwork was carried out in a town that has undergone massive changes in the past 30 years due to the combined effects of foreign direct investment and international migration. Economically, the town changed from a poor and decaying context, to one that was poor but developing and finally to one experiencing strong development. Using a modes-of-integration perspective and analysing returnees’ reintegration and mobilities, we show how return evolved as an ethnicised process in different contexts of reception. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a0108a18e634b27ac2caac86d076ad42023-02-12T13:29:29ZengCentre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of SciencesCentral and Eastern European Migration Review2300-16822022-12-01112698310.54667/ceemr.2022.18Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian ContextRemus Gabriel Anghel0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8534-1434Ovidiu Oltean1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-5838Alina Petronela Silian2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5561-7628Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, and Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, RomaniaDepartment of Political Sciences, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, RomaniaDoctoral School of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University and National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, RomaniaThis article contributes to the growing debate on reintegration and the positioning of returnees in their home societies. Increasingly, studies focus on returnees’ agency in reintegration processes, their practices of mobility in return and their use of social capital and financial and social remittances acquired abroad. Much less analysed is how ethnicity influences such processes of return and experiences of reintegration. In this paper we examine how returnees belonging to different ethnic groups – Germans, Romanians and Roma – reintegrate in a Romanian multi-ethnic context with marked ethnic inequality and lasting segregation. Fieldwork was carried out in a town that has undergone massive changes in the past 30 years due to the combined effects of foreign direct investment and international migration. Economically, the town changed from a poor and decaying context, to one that was poor but developing and finally to one experiencing strong development. Using a modes-of-integration perspective and analysing returnees’ reintegration and mobilities, we show how return evolved as an ethnicised process in different contexts of reception.https://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-11-no-2-2022/articles/many-mobile-few-successful-ethnicised-return-changing-romanian-contextreturn migrationcontexts of receptionmobilityethnicityromania |
| spellingShingle | Remus Gabriel Anghel Ovidiu Oltean Alina Petronela Silian Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context Central and Eastern European Migration Review return migration contexts of reception mobility ethnicity romania |
| title | Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context |
| title_full | Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context |
| title_fullStr | Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context |
| title_short | Many Mobile, Few Successful: Ethnicised Return in a Changing Romanian Context |
| title_sort | many mobile few successful ethnicised return in a changing romanian context |
| topic | return migration contexts of reception mobility ethnicity romania |
| url | https://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-11-no-2-2022/articles/many-mobile-few-successful-ethnicised-return-changing-romanian-context |
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