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Crisis does not motivate Romanian people to come back home

Despite the financial crisis, the employment opportunities in the West have remained the same, but are more numerous than those in Romania, according to a study carried out by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Crisis does not motivate Romanian people to come back home
The financial crisis has not made the Romanian people come back home. Photo: Reuters.

Articol de Ioana Stătescu, 05 Octombrie 2011, 10:42

The financial crisis in the Western Europe is not making the Romanian people that work abroad return to the country, although their incomes have fallen, according to a study presented by the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Moreover, the problems that the country is facing has made many people want to leave the country and their number is three time larger than the number of those who have returned home, according to the study which also shows that the employment opportunities in the West have remained the same, but are more numerous than those in Romania.

The study shows that in only 4 percent of the Romanian households at least one person has returned home due to the financial crisis.

The number of people that return home is higher in the counties of Moldova and remains very low in the Braşov county.

A small percentage of people have been forced to return home because they have lost their jobs or their wages have been cut as a result of the financial crisis.

Homesickness and longing for family are the main reasons invoked by over 70 percent of the Romanian people that have returned home.

Romanian people want to leave again after returning home

According to the study, the crisis has led back into the country particularly the Romanian people who have not had time to adjust themselves to these difficult times and could not adapt themselves to the foreign labour market demands.

In addition to this, both the remaining immigrants and those returning to Romania have children.

Thus, the young people aged between 18 and 29, unmarried, that have not found a foreign partner and also persons aged between 45 and 64 without children to support have a higher probability of returning home.

The study results announced by the Foundation "Friedrich Ebert" show that a temporary recovery will occur.

Among the migrants that have returned home, only 20 percent are determined to remain in the country for good, while more than half of them want to go and work abroad again, after a few months or after the crisis ends.

The data was collected in August of 2010 on a sample of about three thousand people aged over 18 years, in six counties.

Translated by: Denisse-Meda Bucura
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University

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