Youth Mentality & Migration in Romania

YOUTH MENTALITY & MIGRATION IN ROMANIA

The social and economic changes/reforms that took place around 1990 in Romania changed the way Romania works than and now, although the liberalisation and the new government have started to work on various reforms and trying to improve the social and economic structure of the country, somewhere down the line, they have failed to achieve so.

The migration culture that was part of the Romanian lifestyle has also taken a drastic change, earlier the migrated people/crowd was educated, nowadays they are without degrees and are just not qualified enough for professional jobs, the youth has started to migrate for the education purposes to various places like Germany, Italy and other European countries instead of just migrating to UK.

Although now, the government is now providing better facilities for education and upgrading the infrastructure, the decision from EU to allow the Romanians to study anywhere in the Europe increases their chances in getting a better education than in their own country.

Even in Hungary, they label us [the ethnic Hungarians of Romania] ‘ola ́h’ a [derogatory term used by Hungarians to label Romanians]. And even there we will have to perform physical labour, because they say: ‘That’s appropriate for Romanians’ (Pito ́, 15).

In this quote, it is also apparent that ethnic Hungarians from Romania often accuse Hungarian citizens of refusing to accept that they belong to a similar ethnic category (Fox 2003).

However self-exploitation, hardship and discrimination seems to be acceptable in the Romanian society in the terms of the economies of basic migration. The difference between the income of the home and host country decides the spending power of a person in their home country, which is one of the most important and basic reason of migration to a better economy than the home one, to upgrade their present lifestyle.