The right to migration. Impact of migration in the legal and family systems

• Author: Frasie Cristina Otovescu - Maria Pescaru
• Position: Assist. Prof. Ph.D., Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, University of Craiova; Coordinator of Department of Human Rights Studies at Social Institute Oltenia, University of Craiova - Lecturer Ph.D, University of Pitesti; Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Pages: 258-262

THE RIGHT TO MIGRATION.

IMPACT OF MIGRATION IN THE LEGAL AND

FAMILY SYSTEMS

Otovescu Frăsie Cristina

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Pescaru Maria

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Abstract

In this study we will analyze people’s possibility of migration regarded as a world-

wide phenomenon. The territorial movement of people is related with the economic

development and with the rapports between different countries from around the world.

Generally, the people migrate from poorest regions towards the richer ones, where they can

enjoy a better life. In Europe, people’s migration has multiple causes: precarious living

conditions, familial and personal insecurity, the overcrowding of some demographical areas,

certain natural calamities, political and religious persecutions. The last part from this study

analyzes the main aspects regarding Romania’s Strategy concerning the main development

policies taken into consideration by our Government for migration.

Keywords: human rights, expansion, migration, migratory strategy, policy

Introduction

The process of economic development of the Western Europe’s countries favored an

ample territorial movement of the population from different countries. This mass movement

was, on one side, from the poor societies towards the flourishing ones, and, on the other side

from the Europe’s rich countries to the other areas and places of the world. Thus, the

geographical mass movement, in the world, has become an international phenomenon. This

couldn’t have been possible without the economic, political, social and technological

changes that embraced the European population during the 16

th

to 20

th

century. The fluxes of

the international migration are closely related with the evolution of the relations between the

different societies, with the agitation of the social-political life from different countries, with

the activity of the technical-economic factors and with the people’s desire of living in better

and safer conditions.

1. Short history regarding the European expansion

Of course the movement of the masses on large distances was very much influenced

by the evolution of transportation (regarding the travelers’ volume, the accessible routes for

traveling and the moving speed). The perfecting and the permanent diversification of the

means of conveyance have favored the continuous growth of the contacts frequency between

different human communities and, implicitly, the migration phenomenon on the continental

and intercontinental level.

The population’s spatial repartition in the world has been influenced, during the

humanity history, b y numerous changes produced by the evolution of the natural, political,

military, economic etc. factors. For example, in the period of The Roman Empire had been

deliberately made huge transfers of human masses. The discovery of America (the end of the

15

th

century) entailed a massive migration towards the new world, especially from Europe.

The need of cheap labor on the south-American plantations encouraged the slave trade, being

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Assist. Prof. Ph.D., Faculty of Law and Administrative Sciences, University of Craiova; Coordinator of

Department of Human Rights Studies at Social Institute Oltenia, University of Craiova; otocris@yahoo.com

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Lecturer Ph.D, University of Piteşti; Faculty of Educational Science s; mariapescaru@yahoo.com