Italia - Romania: il contesto globale e l’immigrazione
Italy – Romania, The Global Context and Migrations

Summary/Abstract: Italians have always been a people of migrants: for this reason today we are aware of the difficulties, and discriminations a migrant can suffer in a foreign country. Today, the Romanian community in Italy is an important reality. At the beginning of ‘90s, Romania emerged as a country with a strong migration pressure on the European scenario. At the beginning, this process occurred with ethnic minorities (such as Saxons, Hungarian and Roma) and groups at a higher culture and professional level, who looked for better opportunities. Then, following the fall of the regime, several nationalized factories closed down and unemployed people became transnational commuters in order to keep a decent economic and social quality of life. On the other side, entire groups of Italian factory workers from the North East of the country moved to contribute to restructure Romania, employed both in the construction of highways, railways, and public buildings, and in small medium and large sized businesses. Despite the current crisis, Romania remains one of the largest markets in Central and Eastern Europe recording a progressive growth in the investments by foreign businesses, even due to the strategic geographic position of the country, a conjunction point between Europe and Central Asia. The economic relationship between Romania and Italy are stable with Italian entrepreneurs who continue to invest in Romania. Today, there are more than 20.000 small and medium sized enterprises operating in the country, which can count on a specialized and multilingual workforce.

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