students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou, Maria Papaloizou, Andrea Katsavra
The Romania In & Out seminar was a research course that followed a 6 day trip to Romania. The seminar aimed at interpreting the observations of our field research in Romania. The theme assigned to our group was demographics in relation with the social and economical status of the population of Romania. The research had to be developed in all 4 scales, XL, L, M and S.
For the XL scale our research was mainly based on the comparison of Romania with 3 other European countries (Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom) and on the major migration flows of the country and all the impacts of this tendency. The comparison was focused on demographic characteristics concerning: social: population and population structure (male, female, age), birth and death rates, education levels and occupational sectors, unemployment and poverty levels, crime rates, as well as economical characteristics: average salary and main costs of living in each country, such as price of bread, milk, metro tickets, petrol, housing properties, and the GDP per capita.
Concerning the migration sector, Romania shows great migration flows over the years, especially after the fall of Communism (1989). These flows are mainly related to all the differences observed in the social characteristics of the country’s population, concerning both the evolution of time and the comparison between the social statuses of the people. The emigration generally shows larger flows (mainly for the search of a better economic related life), while the immigration shows only specific moments of increase (mostly due to asylum and employment).
In relation to the other scales – L, M, S – we focused on analyzing migration flows: emigration (outflows), immigration (inflows) and rural to urban migration, and the reasons that cause these flows and the impacts that they have on the country’s social characteristics. In the diagrams and charts developed for these scales research had been made concerning the poverty level of the country compared to emigration flows, the occupation sectors of each region of Romania, the migration flows of the years between 1991-2007 related to social and economical events that occurred in the specific period of time, the social and economical reasons that affected the emigrations and immigration tendencies over the years and the statistics that are related to the standard of living.
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