Brief considerations on immigration and immigrant's education integrated policy in the European Union for 2011

• Author: Elise Nicoleta Vâlcu - Alina Gabriela Marinescu
• Position: Lecturer Ph.D. University of Pitesti, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences - Lecturer Ph.D. University of Pitesti, Faculty of International Relations, History and Journalism
• Pages: 16-20

BRIEF CONSIDERATIONS ON IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRANT’S EDUCA TION INTEGRATED

POLICY IN

THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR 2011

Elise-Nicoleta Valcu

Alina Gabriela Marinescu 

Abstract

Communitarian educa tion and immigration are among the basic elements for the socio-economic

development and competitiveness of the Europea n Union. If in the Europea n Union immigration and

immigrants’ integration have represen ted an interest, constant in the political debates of the supranational

governance, for the Member States the political reactions towards immigrants reflects the ideas of nation,

tolerance .

Key words: migration, immigrant, thir d-country national, Euro pean Union, policy on education.

Introduction

The immigration phenomenon ra ises significant economic, social and demographic issues for the EU’s

Member States. In these conditions, it is necessary a coherent a pproach of the phenomenon at a n Eur opean

level, designed as a common policy, having the objective of a better management of the migrator y fluxes by a

coordina ted approach which will have in considera tion the European economic and d emographic situa tion. Two

types of immigrants are found in the EU, na mely the first category formed by citizens of a Member State

1 who

live in other state2 on the EU’s territory for which it is used the terminology “third -country national”, and the

second ca tegory3 repr esenting citizens of the extra-communitarian4 states for who the legislative texts and the

literature use the name “third-country na tional”.

I. Theoretical aspects on immigration in the European Union

Migration rep resents the phenomenon which involves the movement of a population from an area to

another one with the purpose of settling. To emigra te represents the abandon of the own state, while to

immigrate represents the e ntrance of a person in a state, other than the origin one, to settle there. The

immigration phenomenon is international and has as starting point the origin state of the immigrant and as

arriving point the state in which that immigrant is settling.

Regarding the third-country national, he ca n be legally on the territory of the European Union, case in

which he is the beneficiary of the communitarian provisions mentioned in this article, of the right of staying,

labor, the right to family reunification or other rights recognized for the members of his family, or illegally, case

in which the communitarian provisions state the return of the immigrant and sanctions for the employers o f third-

country nationals living illegally.

Migrant population represente d in 2010 almost 2,9% of the world population – or almost 190 millions,

than almost 2,2% in 19705. Starting from these numbers we can state that international migration is an ascendant

phenomenon.

Most states have three formal entrances for admission of high qualified persons, and a fourth, “the back

door”, for asylum seekers and clandestine migrant workers, some of them being qualified persons 6, namely:

- The admission of professionals and persons with exceptional skills which exist in all states, due to the

common will to ease the transfer or knowledge and know-how;

- The transfers between companies, to facilitate international business and, especially, to encourage capital

investments;

- The admission of international students (graduates)7.

 Lecturer Ph.D. University of Pitesti, Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, email: elisevalcu@yahoo.com

 Lecturer Ph.D. University of Pitesti, Faculty of International Relations, History and Journalism, email: alina.marinescu74@yahoo.com

1 Named Member State of origin.

2 Named host state.

3 Turks an d Kurds in Germany and Belgium; Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians in France; Albanians, Moroccans, Slovenians, Tunisians in

Italy; Vietnamese, Ch inese, Indians, Pakistanis i n Great Britain (especially immigrants coming from the Commonwealth); Turks,

Indonesians, Moroccans in Holland; Moroccans in Spain, etc.

4 In most cases these groups, especially Islamic non-Europeans, face the prejudices of the majority and discriminations. Discrimination is

manifested by intolerance, abuse, use of force and a series of restrictive policies. The French National Front constantly unfolds an anti -Arab

and anti-Semite policy, militating for the forced repatriation and anti-islamisation of France.

5 Keeley, Brian, (2009) International Migration - The human face of globalization, OECD Insights, 2009.

6 Abella, M. I. (International Labor Office) Global dimensions of the highly skilled migration, GTZ Conference on Migration and

development, Berlin 20-21 October 2003, http://www2.gtz.de/migration-and-development/download/abella.pdf.

7 Nicolaie Iancu, The consequences of the migration of higly-skilled, Law skilled and unskilled workers, in AGORA Internationa l Journal of

Juridica l Sciences, No. 2/2010, AGORA University Press, p. 219.