Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case
This paper analyzes Romania’s dynamic migratory process with a focus on the return migration from Norway and the sociocultural changes that it might involve for Romanian migrants and their home societies. The focus on Norway as a case study can bring a valuable, accurate, and deep understanding of R...
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| description | This paper analyzes Romania’s dynamic migratory process with a focus on the return migration from Norway and the sociocultural changes that it might involve for Romanian migrants and their home societies. The focus on Norway as a case study can bring a valuable, accurate, and deep understanding of Romanian immigration. These indicate that Romanians faced many challenges in their migratory journey in Norway, but that for a source country like Romania, return migration could, in the long term, contribute to its social and cultural changes. This research resulted in three key findings. Firstly, through their migratory experience from Norway, Romanian returnees internalized social remittances, and changed their attitudes, behavior, values, and expectations before disseminating their knowledge in their family -and social environment. Secondly, the prevalence of social remittances might be dependent on the motivation of returnees to transfer their knowledge, ideas, and practices in the scope of contributing to social change. The prevalence of social remittances might also be dependent on the way the societies of origin receive the resources that returnees attempt to transmit and culturally diffuse. Thirdly, Romania, as an emigration society, has had a relaxed attitude towards change. However, repatriated Romanians maintain a confident outlook on the potential of their skills and know-how conferring them influence over certain cultural aspects in the spheres of work and social relationships. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f96f649de6194cfe8f265952950119d92024-01-02T11:36:08ZengSciendoSocial Change Review2068-80162023-12-0120112716110.2478/scr-2022-0007Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian caseBaru Florina01University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment, Sandakerveien 130, 0484Oslo, Norway.This paper analyzes Romania’s dynamic migratory process with a focus on the return migration from Norway and the sociocultural changes that it might involve for Romanian migrants and their home societies. The focus on Norway as a case study can bring a valuable, accurate, and deep understanding of Romanian immigration. These indicate that Romanians faced many challenges in their migratory journey in Norway, but that for a source country like Romania, return migration could, in the long term, contribute to its social and cultural changes. This research resulted in three key findings. Firstly, through their migratory experience from Norway, Romanian returnees internalized social remittances, and changed their attitudes, behavior, values, and expectations before disseminating their knowledge in their family -and social environment. Secondly, the prevalence of social remittances might be dependent on the motivation of returnees to transfer their knowledge, ideas, and practices in the scope of contributing to social change. The prevalence of social remittances might also be dependent on the way the societies of origin receive the resources that returnees attempt to transmit and culturally diffuse. Thirdly, Romania, as an emigration society, has had a relaxed attitude towards change. However, repatriated Romanians maintain a confident outlook on the potential of their skills and know-how conferring them influence over certain cultural aspects in the spheres of work and social relationships.https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2022-0007migrationreturnmigrationsociocultural changesocial remittancestransnationalism |
| spellingShingle | Baru Florina Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case Social Change Review migration return migration sociocultural change social remittances transnationalism |
| title | Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case |
| title_full | Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case |
| title_fullStr | Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case |
| title_short | Change starts from within: Migration and processes of social and cultural change. A Romanian case |
| title_sort | change starts from within migration and processes of social and cultural change a romanian case |
| topic | migration return migration sociocultural change social remittances transnationalism |
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