The Rural Contribution to Emigration in 1990s Romania

Katherine Verdery

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Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology Review) is an open-access, double blind peer-reviewed scientific journal, edited by Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy and Romanian Sociological Association. SR welcomes original research papers with innovative methods, theoretical and conceptual research papers, case studies, book reviews and conference reviews. We encourage studies with different methodologies and theoretical approaches that could add value to already established normative ways of doing research, but also approaches that give space to alternative methodologies and critical theories including social change, social development, social history, social policy, demography, gender studies, political issues, social inequalities, education, organization & labour studies, criminology and migration studies. We are particularly interested in contributions focused on Eastern and Central Europe or that could sustain collaborations between scholars across borders and disciplines. Articles that include Romania in their analyses are particularly welcomed, however we are committed to expand this focus.

Published Nov 5, 2009

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2009): Special Issue - Anthropology

Katherine Verdery

The City University of New York (SUA)

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The article analyzes the connections between three social phenomena that have shaped life in postsocialist rural communities: land restitution, agricultural policies and migration. The article starts with an overview of land restitution policies, with a broader, comparative coverage, and then discusses direct and indirect effects of these measures on emigration, with a focus on the German minority living in Romanian villages. Agricultural policies have shaped the effects of the new property arrangements, and, in particular, they have influenced migration decisions. The paper concludes with comments on possible future configurations of migration and agriculture work in Romania, after the European integration.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Katherine Verdery, The City University of New York (SUA)

Email: kverdery@gc.cuny.edu

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Verdery, K. (2009). The Rural Contribution to Emigration in 1990s Romania. Sociologie Românească, 7(3), 21-36. Retrieved from https://revistasociologieromaneasca.ro/sr/article/view/2009_3_verdery

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