Las circulaciones migratorias rumanas en Europa: 1989-2015. Movilidades, redes, trayectorias

Identifier:  TDX:4313

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4313

Authors:  Maisongrande, Vincent

Abstract:
In this study, I try to unravel the history of Romanian migration in Europe between 1989 and 2015, showing its different aspects and numerous transformations, by analyzing them on different scales, both from a socio-structural and geographical approach. But I also try to put a particular emphasis on mobility and his dynamic configuration. The result consists in a deep and quite precise look, 'from within' and 'at ground level', at a truly transnational phenomenon; which appears to be ridiculously complex but extremely broad and relevant, despise the fact that it always has been mainly informal and invisible, for a lot of reasons; and, therefore, had remained widely unknown. On a theoretical level, my work relies on several different tools, several concepts: such as the migratory social network, or the Romanian Migratory Field. They respectively represent the concrete social basis, and the main frame of interaction, from which Romanian mobility, and his given evolutions, are defined. On a field-research level, my work consists of a meticulous monitoring, over 25 years, of the trajectory of a group of Romanian migrants. They, and their own particular fate in several 'reception' countries, from a place to another, were selected as a faithful illustration of the whole. The long interviews I had with them, as well as the extensive observations I carried out in different countries over the years, allowed me to collect a large amount of data that could be put in perspective with the general historical phenomenon of Romanian migration. On an analysis level, it seems possible to identify which aspects seem to be the most decisive, indirectly and through their influence on the Migratory Field, which acts as a link and as a vector of integration between said aspects: these models of family and community relations in Romania; this continental process of imposition of neoliberal capitalism and its economic policies and methods; this legal frameworks and bureaucratic procedures (those of 'about foreigners' in particular) of the receiving countries of the flows.