AFFECTIVE MIGRATION VERSUS ECONOMIC MIGRATION IN ROMANIA

Migrant communities have become a main issue for most studies in this field. Romanian migrants experience the process of transnationalism from an economic and also affective perspective. In the heart of the debate of this paper lie the transnational practices which help or hinder integration processes and economic development of Romanian migrants. The economic aspect of migration is determined by the first stage of the migration process, while the migration affectivity is given mainly by the family presence at the destination. The great challenge in this paper is to analyze the way in which determinants of migration, the effects of the affective and economic migration can pass from affective to economic by developing new forms of transnationalism ("virtual return"). What remains significant for the work is the debate on the usefulness of the transnational research and the proposed perspectives which should be focused on the integration of migrants for the dynamics of the phenomenon.