Mobility, return for development and sense of Europe: narratives of Moldavian immigrants returning from the European Union

Marcu, Silvia

Abstracts

The article links migration, cross-border mobility and return for development embedded in terms of identity and approach to sense of Europe. Taking into account the global changes in Moldova, the paper examines the perceptions of mobility, return and identity of the Moldovans engaged in emigration in the countries of the European Union (EU). Utilising a multi-discipline approach and an in-depth qualitative interview technique, this article seeks to analyze how mobility and return can support social change and development of the country, and argues that people, who cross EU borders, living through the experience of emigration, acquire a pro-European mentality.

mobility; border; Moldova; return; development; European Union

Este artigo associa a migração, a mobilidade além-fronteiras e o retorno para o desenvolvimento, enraizados em termos de identidade e de abordagem ao sentido da Europa. Ao se considerar as mudanças globais que estão ocorrendo na Moldávia, analisam-se as percepções de mobilidade, retorno e identidade dos Moldavos emigrantes em países da União Europeia. Com base em abordagem multidisciplinar e em técnica qualitativa de entrevista em profundidade, este artigo busca avaliar como a mobilidade e o retorno podem apoiar a mudança e o desenvolvimento social do país, e argumenta que as pessoas, que atravessam as fronteiras da UE e vivem a experiência da emigração, adquirem uma mentalidade pró-europeia.

mobilidade; fronteira; Moldávia; desenvolvimento; retorno; União Europeia

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[1] AGNEW, John. Borders on the mind: re-framing border thinking. Ethics and Global Politics, v. 1, n. 4, 2008, p. 175-191.

[2] AMASSARI Savina; BLACK, Richard. Harnessing the potential of migration and return to promote development: applying concepts to West Africa. Geneva: IOM Migration Research Series, 2001.

[3] BARTH, Fredrick. The Analysis of Culture in Complex Societies. Ethnos, v. 54, n. 3-4, 1989, p. 120-142.

[4] BECKFIELD, Jason. European Integration and Income Inequality. American Sociological Review, v. 71, n. 6, 2006, p. 964-985.

[5] BLACK, Richard; GENT, Saskia. Sustainable return in post-conflict contexts. International Migration, v. 44, n. 3, 2006, p. 15-38.

[6] BROWNING, Christopher; CHRISTOU, George. The constitutive power of outsiders: The European neighbourhood policy and the eastern dimension. Political Geography, v. 29, 2010, p. 109-118.

[7] BRUTER, Michael. Citizens of Europe? The Emergence of a Mass European Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

[8] CAMIA, Valeria. Normative Discussions on European Identity: a puzzle for Social Science? Perspectives on European Politics and Society, v. 11, 2010, p. 109-118.

[9] CHAPMAN, Murray; PROTHERO, Mansell. Themes on circulation in the Third World. International Migration Review, v. 17, n. 4, 1983, p. 597-632.

[10] CHINN, Jeff. Moldovans: Searching for Identity. Problems of Post Communism, v. 44, 1997, p. 43-51.

[11] COOPER, Anthonny; RUMFORD. Monumentalising the Border: Bordering Through Connectivity. Mobilities, v. 8, n. 1, 2013, p. 107-124.

[12] COUTIN, Susan. Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.

[13] DE HAAS, Hein. The migration and development pendulum: a critical view of current research and policy. International Migration, v. 50, n. 3, 2012, p. 8-25.

[15] FAIST, Thomas. Migrants as Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the Newest Round of the Migration-Development Nexus. Population, Space and Place, v. 14, 2008, 21-42.

[16] FLIGSTEIN, Neil; MÉRAND, Frederic. Globalization or Europeanization? Evidence on the European Economy since 1980. Acta Sociologica, v. 45, n. 1, 2002, p. 7-22.

[17] FOURON, Geoges; GLICK SCHILLER, Nina. All in the Family: Gender, Transnational Migration, and the Nation-State. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, v. 7, n. 4, 2001, p. 539-582.

[18] GLASER, Barney; STRAUSS, Anselm. The discovery of grounded theory: strategies for qualitative research. New York: Aldine, 1967.

[19] GLICK SCHILLER, Nina; BASCH, Linda; SZANTON BLANC, Christina. Transnationalism: A new analytic framework for understanding migration. In GLICK SCHILLER, Nina; BASCH, Linda; SZANTON BLANC, Christina (eds.). Towards a transnational perspective on migration: Race, class, ethnicity and nationalism reconsidered. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1992, p. 1-24.

[20] GOULD, David. Immigrant Links to the Home Country: Empirical Implications for US Bilateral Trade Flows. The Review of Economics and Statistics, v. 76, n. 2, 1994, p. 302-316.

[21] GRUNDY, Sue; JAMIESON, Lynn. European Identities: From Absent-Minded Citizens to Passionate Europeans. Sociology, v. 41, n. 4, 2007, p. 663-680.

[22] INTERNATIONAL Organization of Migration Moldova. Disponible in: <http://www.iom.md/index.php/en/programs/migrationa-development>, 2011. Accessed in 17.01.2013.

[23] HADZIGEORGIOU, Andreas. Migration as Trade Facilitation: Assessing the Links between International Trade and Migration. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, v. 10, n. 1, 2010, p. 1-33.

[24] JANSEN, Marion; PIERMARTINI, Roberta. Temporary Migration and Bilateral Trade Flows. World Economy, v. 32, 2009, p. 735-753.

[26] KING, Richard; POVRZANOVI Frykman; VULLNETARI, Jullie. Migration, transnationalism and development on the Southeastern flank of Europe. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, v. 13, n. 2, 2013, p. 125-140.

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[28] KING, Charles. The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000.

[29] _________. Marking time in the middle ground: contested identities and Moldovan foreign policy. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, v. 19, n. 3, 2003, p. 60-82.

[30] LAVENEX, Sandra. EU external governance in a wider Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, v. 11, n. 4, 2004, p. 680-700.

[31] LEVITT, PEGGY; LAMBA-NIEVES, Deepak. Social Remittances Revisited. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, v. 37, n. 1, 2011, p. 1-22.

[32] MARCU, Silvia. Opening the Mind, Challenging the Space: Cross-border Cooperation between Romania and Moldova. International Planning Studies, v. 16, n. 2, 2011, p. 109-130.

[33] ________. The Geopolitics of the Eastern Border of the European Union: The Case of Romania-Moldova-Ukraine. Geopolitics, v. 14, n. 3, 2009, p. 409-432.

[34] MAY, Vanessa. Self, Belonging and Social Change. Sociology, v. 45, n. 3, 2011, p. 363-378.

[36] PORTES, Alejandro; GUARNIZO, Luis; LANDOLT, Patricia. The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field. Ethnic and Racial Studies, v. 22, n. 2, 1999, p. 217-237.

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[38] ROUSE, Roger. Mexican migration and the social space of post-modernism. In INDA Jonathan Xavier; ROSALDO Renato (eds.). The anthropology of globalization: a reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, p. 157-171.

[39] ROTHER, Nina; NEBE, Tina. More Mobile, More European? Free Movement and EU identity. In FAVELL, Adrien; RECCHI, Ettore (eds.). Pioneers of European Integration: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, p. 120-155.

[40] RUSNAC, Gheorghe; MOŞNEAGA, Valeriu; MORARU, Victor; ŢURCAN, Valentin. Faţetele unui proces: migraţia forţei de muncă din Republica Moldova în Italia. Chişinău: Prim, 2011.

[41] SANDERSON, Matthew; KENTOR, Jeffrey. Foreign direct investment and international migration: A cross-national analysis of less-developed countries, 1985-2000. International Sociology, v. 23, n. 4, 2008, p. 514-539.

[42] SKELDON, Ronald. Migration and development over twenty years of research: progress and prospects. In AUDEBERT Cedric; DORAÏ Mohamed (eds.). Migration in a Globalised World: New Research Issues and Prospects. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010, p. 145-159.

[45] VERTOVEC, Steve. Conceiving and Researching Transnationalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, v. 22, n. 2, 1999, p. 447-460.

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Mobility, return for development and sense of Europe: narratives of Moldavian immigrants returning from the European Union

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