DESIGNING THE RETURN MIGRATION OF ROMANIAN STUDENTS

• Main Authors: Magdalena VELCIU, Liliana GRECU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence 2017-05-01
• Series: SEA: Practical Application of Science
• Subjects: International student migration; Return migration; Brain drain
• Online Access: http://seaopenresearch.eu/Journals/articles/SPAS_13_24.pdf

Romanian youth migration is an increasing phenomenon, due to subjective and objective factors as economical reasons, professional carrer and increasingly more international competition for talent. In these circumstances, the present article aims to evaluate determinant factors that contribute to the decision of Romanian graduates to return national labour market. We sustain that young Romanians consider carefully and hardly decide their professional future. A particular attention is given to their personal reasons and motivations as well as family and friends network. For designing returning factors we present the results of a questionnaire survey, asking young pupils and students about their future educational way and personal reasons underlying the decision to study in a foreign country and taking into consideration the returning decision. As far international student migration is seen as a first step to migration for work, our work desires to fight for returning home of Romanian well-educated graduates.