Romanian immigrants are in search not of a job but of a job to be well paid, with the emigration policy in Romania needing to adopt as explicit target the optimization and not the cut in the temporary migration, say the authors of the 'Romanian Community in Spain' study launched on Thursday by the Soros Foundation.
The study presents the conditions and trends in terms of the return of Romanian workers from abroad. The social research started with a presentation of the profiles of the Romanian communities abroad and of the dynamics of the Romanian emigrants in the Madrid region in Spain. The four municipalities that were taken into account by the study: Alcala de Henares, Coslada, Arganda del Rey and Torrejon de Ardoz belong to the Madrid region, which includes the largest number of Romanians in Spain, that is approx. a quarter of the total number of Romanian immigrants in this country.
These Romanian communities include 18,828, 15,515, 10,485 and 7,645 Romanians respectively, according to data provided on January 1, 2008, by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. The demand for workforce in Spain focuses on such occupations in the socioeconomic field offering not so much prestige: services and commerce, jobs for both skilled and unskilled workers.
'Although some of the Romanian immigrants in Spain were affected by the 'losses' in terms of status and prestige, it is quite probable such values not to mean higher incomes too, due to the high average wages in Spain compared with those in Romania,' the conductors of the study said. With regards to living in Spain, those who conducted the study talked about an overcrowding: 79 percent of the subjects live in houses with other families, 60 percent live with other four or more than four people and 15 percent live with more than two other people in the same room.
Romanians from the abovementioned communities tend to keep their money in their adoptive country, with only a few of them sending the money to Romania, as "two thirds of the immigrants in the Madrid region define their home by including only those members of their family living with them in Spain," showed the study. Romanians living in Spain say they might return to Romania "for a home and a business" but with most of them returning only if their health got bad or if they had come to a positive perception towards the future of the labour market in Romania, showed the research.
Returning to Romania is understood as a family project, with 57 percent of those saying they will return soon to their home country also mentioning they will not return alone, but with another member of their family.
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