Rev. 5-6-2024-5

ABSTRACT

ROMANIANS ABROAD. THE MIGRATION OF OPPORTUNITY IN THE GREATER MANCHESTER

International migration has generated a new social geography, that of migration corridors. They overlap the economic and socio-demographic geography of the countries, distorting their size. It becomes imperative to research the configuration of this social geography generated by migration and I undertook this task under the generic title “Romanians abroad”. The current situation is reflected in the demographic balance by counties and countries, through which we can quantify the proportion of demographic disproportions. The model used in the present analysis is one in two steps: a. determining the demographic balance by counties and countries and b. mapping the “geography of international migration corridors”. National and international socioscopy reveals the positioning of Romaniaʼs counties within such a balance sheet. The map of international migration corridors allows us to distinguish between countries with poor labor supply in Eastern Europe and countries in Western and Northern Europe and from other areas of the planetary geography, with rich labor supply, all distributed along axial continuums, such as Romania-Italy, Romania-United Kingdom, Romania-Spain, Romania-USA, Romania-Israel, etc. A special place in the present study is allocated to the relationship between migration, identity and translingualism. The applied study includes migrants from Great Manchester with an emphasis on Romanians who immigrated to this area of Great Britain and on the opportunity migration of Romanians to this country.

Keywords: migration corridors, migration of necessity, pole of migration, opportunity migration.

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