From Romania to Germany: A complex motivation of post-Communist ethnic migration: Case study: Germans of Romania

Abstract

Starting from the Romanian Revolution this article gives an insight to the reasons of emigration movements from Romania to Germany between 1989 and 2017. Different emigration periods are portrayed by regarding the given political events and its effects on the people. Connecting official statistical data and a case study considering reasons, locations, and circumstances, an overview of the diversity of motivation for emigration to Germany is depicted. Furthermore, the role of the German Minorities of Romania, respectively, the Transylvanian Saxons and the Banat Swabs, as an important cohort within the emigrating people, is examined.

Keywords

• romanian emigration
• german immigration
• romanian revolution
• ethnic germans of romania
• poverty migration