Who are the migrants of today?

• Author: Maria Stoicovici
• Position: University assistant PhD. Candidate, Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication Dept
• Pages: 333-338

WHO ARE THE MIGRANTS OF TODAY?

Stoicovici Maria

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Abstract

Globalization determines new types of migrants, installation migration and the

economic one, based on a rational choice and distinguished from forced migration. There is

no region of the globe that has not known the migration phenomenon.

Keywords: migrants, profiles, mobility, factors, regions.

Introduction

In analyzing the phenomenon of migration historical conditions, socio-economic and

political development of states in precisely these circumstances that show the main causes of

international migration in the contemporary period must be taken into account. The assembly

of large population movements is a primarily concern for countries of the South that

combines at the same time the most powerful levels of emigration with strong currents of

internal redistribution directed mainly towards large crowds. Migration, affecting all

developing countries, may be perceived as a component of national development in each

country but also as a response to demographic pressure and environmental degradation.

Migrants’ profile

Among the factors determining migration I mention: demographic burst, urbanization,

wage inequalities between countries, underdeveloped economic sectors in the country of

origin, trade and international trade structure, a weak human capital, environmental fragility,

the colonial legacy. Following that dismal context, people seek solutions to a better life or

simply survival solutions. Some of them choose to emigrate.

For the person who wants to emigrate we must mention several reasons: professional

(for a person who wants to study abroad or to conduct business there for a long time),

political (political refugee who fled from persecution); security (if there is a war going on in

the country of origin), economic (thee poor inhabitant of a country who aspires to a better

standard of living, even for a limited period of time, in rich countries), personal (willingness

to settle in a country whose values are identified with) the family (to be near husband / wife)

or even tax related (staying in a country where the tax is lower).

If migration to Western Europe is not new in scale, it acquires its novelty by diverse

forms of mobility. Thus, we can talk about the nature of flows: asylum seekers, displaced

candidates for famil y reunification, business migrants, ethnic migrants, cross-border

migrants, seasonal nomads; regarding the scale of illegal immigration, Europol data show that

annually enter the EU 500,000 people, for which we proceeded to regularization, the settled

people profile is evolving.

Also in Central and Eastern Europe there is great diversity: swinging migration

related to transit and traffic and is accompanied by a long haul" immigration of those who

come forward and remain briefly in Russia before moving towards West; ethnic migrations

(Finns „from abroad" or Aussiedler who are ethnic Germans came to Germany after the fall

of the Berlin Wall) is added to all this „unraveling of nationalities" in Central Europe (ex.

Turks from Bulgaria are going to Turkey).

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University assistant PhD. Candidate, Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, For eign Languages and

Intercultural Communication Dept., maria.stoicovici@gmail.com