MIGRATION OVER TIME
MIGRATION OVER TIME

Summary/Abstract: In this study I described, form a diachronic perspective, the main stages of external migration, emphasising especially the totalitarian period and transition one. From the sociological theories (human capital theory, theory of push and pull factors, social network theory, institutional theory) I chose the theory launched by Ravenstein (1876) and continued by E. Lee (1966), which follows to determine the factors that make the migrants to leave their country of origin (push factors) and what attracts the migrants to the destination countries (pull factors)? A possible answer could be given by the inequalities in the existent life standard in their country of origin. If during the communist period few Romanians managed to cross the border, after the ’90s their number grew overwhelmingly, so that, in recent years, Romania was placed next to Syria, among the countries with the highest emigration rate (according to UNO Report, 2017).

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