Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science (Jul 2013)
L’ÉTUDE DES LANGUES MODERNES ET LA RESPONSABILITÉ POUR LA MIGRATION QUALIFIÉE
Abstract
Abstract: Among the “vicious” or “secondary” personal mobility effects, the brain drain has become the most disturbing trend for the least developed countries barely out of communism. Its consequences on social and economic development have not yet been measured. We suggest a reflection on solutions (only few at present) that our university finds in order to adapt to the international transfer of human capital. Starting from the responses to questions about the aspirations and migration projects of students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, aspiring entrepreneurs, we have been able to observe a radical change in attitude towards the historical migration. Although the migration phenomenon is considered as being natural in any tumultuous period of history, the current migration differs from the twentieth century one, because it is caused by the growing rate of unemployment and the inability of the people to create new jobs. Young people are sort of exiled because some do not want to leave the country as their precedecessors from the communist regime, but they are pragmatic and want higher salaries. In the case in which they leave the country, they do it having in mind the thought of returning at the moment they find an opportunity in Romania. The Romanian educational system displeases the young by its nature, too theoretical and less practical, by the scarcity of offers of internships in companies. The paradox is that few of the students go study for bachelor and master degrees abroad, although they acknowledge the superiority of the Western education system. The survey shows that while studying abroad, the majority of students get a job, also because the scholarship does not cover their living expenses. Students go abroad for a high quality of life, professional opportunities and for recognition of the individual value. They are attracted by lower corruption, possibilities of professional development and appreciation of their work by the employer. Those of them who decide to come back are justified by numerous opportunities to launch a new business, opportunity to exploit its expertise in order to change the Romanian society. Emotional connection with friends and family and not least patriotism are mentioned by almost all respondents, which is a surprise to a generation considered to be cosmopolitan. Knowledge of foreign languages and intercultural accommodation with the Western civilization through university studies, smooth the progress of migration, but they are not its cause.
