A study on emigration and immigration institutions in Romania

• Author: Ioan Gânfalean - Decebal Manole Bogdan
• Position: Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University '1 Decembrie 1918' Alba Iulia - Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University '1 Decembrie 1918' Alba Iulia
• Pages: 159-169

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No.1 (2012), pp. 33-43

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A STUDY ON EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION

INSTITUTIONS IN ROMANIA

I. Gânflean, D. M. Bogdan

Ioan Gânflean

Faculty of Law and Social Sciences

University "1 Decembrie 1918" Alba Iulia

* Correspondence: Ioan Ganfalean, University "1 Decembrie 1918" Alba Iulia, 1 1-13

Nicolae Iorga St., Alba Iulia, Alba County, Romania

E-mail: ioan.ganfalean@yahoo.com

Decebal-Manole Bogdan

Faculty of Law and Social Sciences

University "1 Decembrie 1918" Alba Iulia

* Correspondence: Decebal-Manole Bogdan, University "1 Decembrie 1 918" Alba Iulia, 11-

13 Nicolae Iorga St., Alba Iulia, Alba County, Romania

Abstract

The present paper aims at analyzing the Romanian citizens’ migration fluxes before

and after Romania’s joining the European Union. It also focuses on viewing the

consolidation process of the institutions that are in charge with immigration issues, with

making the European Union Eastern border more secure on th e Romanian sector and with

the implementation of the community Aquis stipulated in the SCHENGE N Agreement.

Key words: migration, UE enlargement, borders, SCHENGEN, asylum,

immigrants, emigrants, SIS.

Introduction

The geopolitical events that occurred on the ma p of 1989 Europe have led to in

depth system changes: i.e. the political, social and economic systems in Romania. Transition

from a totalitarian political system to a democratic social system took pla ce through an

evolutionary parallelism which alternated b etween developing the Romanian society and

adaptation of the legislative mech anisms to build "The State of Law" with democratic

meanings. In the past 20 years, Romania has almost c ompletely changed the national

legislation starting from substa ntial changes brought to the Constitution and end ing with the

rules of law enforcement. The legislative framework in Romania was adapted to the

standards and the EU Directives, and after integration in the Europea n Union, in 2007,

Romania has implemented the relevant Commun ity aquis stipulated in the Schengen

Agreement and Prüm Convention.

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The Prüm Convention provides, among other things, setting up a DNA database and training counselors to detect

fake documents of immigrants. The Convention allows direct access to d atabases containing information on

fingerprints, DNA or on vehicles registered in each EU member state of the signatory states.