Mapping integration. Understanding immigration

Livia Dana Pogan
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Livia Dana Pogan: “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

Sociology and Social Work Review, 2020, vol. 4, issue 2, 79-86

Abstract: Each historical period was confronted with population movements across territories, displacements that were not always peaceful. Nowadays, peoples’ positioning in a certain area and the movements between territories are related to concepts as nation, country, citizenship, and migration, all performing within a given formal framework. Besides this preestablished setting, a series of soft, cultural aspects, individual abilities, beliefs systems, attitudes, perceptions, values, all together shape such issues regarding both emigration and immigration. When analyzing migratory flows, Romania can be clearly defined as an emigration country, after the revolution of 1989. Nevertheless, a phenomenon started to gain terrain in the last years, as more people, from diversifying countries are coming to Romania. Immigration could be seen as bringing both advantages and disadvantages, challenges and opportunities to the host country, thus both facets of the coin must be addressed. Therefore, the core concept when discussing immigration is “integration”, as a smooth and successful immigrant integration process brings gains for the receiving country (brain gain, counterbalancing the demographic decline or the lack of workforce, contributions to the national budget, for example) and for the immigrants also. Considering the above-mentioned issues this paper aims to provide a theoretical framework that fosters immigrants` integration measuring and understanding. Thus, integration levels and dimensions are presented, doubled by an analysis of the factors that can determine or moderate integration.

Keywords: immigration; integration; integration dimensions; attitudes towards immigrants. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J60 J61 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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