THE ROMANIAN MIGRATION TO CANADA
THE ROMANIAN MIGRATION TO CANADA

Summary/Abstract: The migration of the population is a complex process, influenced by many facts that determine the intensity of the migration flaws, that lead to multiple effects , most likely unwanted , on that certain population. After the falling of communism, Romania and Poland were the biggest providers of migrants. In this more than twenty years after, Romanian migration has become a mass phenomenon, with huge involvments at the Romanian society level. Romanian migration knows different European directions, but also non- European ones. In Europe, Romanians first turned towards countries like Turkey, Israel, Hungary and Germany, then Italy and Spain. Non European countries that Romanians constantly oriented to are the United States of America and Canada. The study follows a presentation of the Romanian migration process in general, focusing on the migration to Canada, from a social wiew. Romanian migration is various and highlighted. If in the beginning it was predominant male, it now reaches the equality of the gender categories. There is also a orientation on activity fields. Men in building, agriculture and industry, women in taking care of people, housekeeping, agriculture and accommodation services. The reviews on the Romanian migrants start to appear after 2007.

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