EVALUATING POLICIES FOR THE INTEGRATION OF EU MOBILE CITIZENS
EVALUATING POLICIES FOR THE INTEGRATION OF EU MOBILE CITIZENS

Summary/Abstract: Because of the right to free movement within the EU, we are witnessing an intense internal migration flow, causing a number of challenges at multiple levels: EU, country of residence and country of origin. On the other hand, in the European Union, we cannot speak any more about migrants, but of mobile citizens. Their rights are considered near-equivalent to those that are native citizens (Collet, 2013, p.1), but they also face difficulties when it comes to integration and they have different needs in this regard. After moving in another EU country, the mobile citizens will have to adapt to new institutions, languages and social norms. These four countries are relevant due to the fact that there is a considerable gap between the periods in which they allowed Romanian citizens to come and work freely on their territory: 2007 in the case of Spain and Italy, and 2014 in the case of France and the United Kingdom. Moreover, in Spain and Italy, there is currently a great number of Romanian residents. The purpose of this paper is to construct an evaluation model for the policies targeting the integration of EU mobile citizens. More specifically, the evaluation model will be applied to the policies that aim at the integration of Romanian mobile citizens in Spain, Italy, France and the United Kingdom.

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