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Informationen zum Autor Remus Gabriel Anghel is a researcher at the Romanian Institute of Research on National Minorities, and visiting professor at the Political Science Department, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. He received his PhD in sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. The areas of his research include Romanian migration in Italy and Germany, as well as the migration of ethnic minorities. He has published on the topics of migrant transnationalism, irregular migration, migration, development, and social change. He is currently involved in researching the effects of migration among Romanian and Roma migrants in Romania. Klappentext In recent years, Romanians have become the second largest migrant group in Western Europe. Following the liberalization of border controls and the massive economic and political changes in Eastern Europe, human mobility has increased and is becoming a permanent feature of post-Cold War Europe. The arrival of many Eastern Europeans, with Romanians being the largest migrant group, has produced public concerns on immigration in some West European countries. This is particularly the case in Italy, where Romanian irregular migrants are often stigmatized as poor troublemakers by authorities and the mass media. This book challenges such commonly-held assumptions that artificially divide migrants into categories of wished and unwished immigrants-winners and losers of international migration. This book compares two migrant groups. The first is composed of ethnic Germans who migrated legally from Timisoara, Romania, to Nuremberg, Germany. The second is made up of those who migrated irregularly from Borsa, Romania, to Milan, Italy. The analysis highlights a paradoxical situation. Irregular Romanian migrants in Milan had fewer rights and opportunities, yet through migration they gained prestige and came to enjoy a sense of success. Alternately, the Germans who had migrated to Nuremberg, who received more rights and opportunities, perceived that they had suffered a loss of social prestige. The focus on migrants' social status employed in the book seeks to clarify this puzzle and provide an analytical framework for researching the linkages between the migration and incorporation of Romanians-who are today European citizens-and European states' migration policies and migrant transnationalism. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the Romanian migration that has developed in recent years as one of the largest migration waves in Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Constructing Status in Transnational Migration Nation States, Migrants' Incorporation, and Social Status Fieldwork Encounters: Migrants and Mobilities in the Heart of Europe Part One: Romanian Germans in Germany Chapter 1: Germans Moving "Home:" From Timisoara to Nuremberg Readiness to Go. German Migration during State Socialism The Big Wave: Mass Migration of the Romanian Germans Chapter 2: Living in Nuremberg: Accepted but Different Getting to Nuremberg Labor Market Incorporation Getting Education .and Better Jobs Sociality Networks, Claims for Identity, and Prestige Loss Marriage to Romanian Women and "Romanianization" Chapter 3: A Weak Transnationality: Memory, Leisure, and Plans to Return Remembering Places: Transnationalism as Memory "Romania Tourists:" Transnationalism as Leisure Transnational Pensioners Plans to Move Back Part Two: Romanians in Italy Chapter 4: "We Need to Get Out Of Here": From Borsa to Milan Migration from Borsa: Causes, Periods, and Mechanisms of Migration The Initial Phase: Inventing Migration Strategies The Development of Migration: Kinship Networks Freedom of Movement in Europe Chapter 5: Making Milan Their Own: From Precariousness to Adaptation Getting to Milan Finding Housing Finding Jobs Legalization Freedom to ...
