Journal of Identity and Migration Studies (Nov 2007)

The Changing Patterns of Romanian Immigration to Canada

  • Theodor TUDOROIU

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 21 – 43

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This article examines the largely neglected post-1990 Romanianimmigration to Canada. During the 1990s, most Romanians selected by Canadian immigration offices were highly skilled, university-educated professionals. As they ignored important details of the Canadian labor market, about three quarters of them became kindof lumpen-intellectuals. In recent years, however, Internet-based networks have improved the quality of information available to potential migrants. This and structural changes in the home country are preparing a major shift of Romanians' migratory flow to Canada. In the years to come, it will progressively take the form of circulatory migration currently characterizing Romanian immigration to Western Europe.

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