The Fifth Element: Social Class and the Sociology of Anorexia
OCR A Level Sociology Lesson Element · Web view
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From 2003-2013, Romania’s population fell by 8% largely due to emigration.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2356171/How-1-5MILLION-Romanians-left-homeland-decade-immigrants-head-west-droves.html
After the fall of communism in the1989, travel was liberalised.
http://focus-migration.hwwi.de/Romania.2515.0.html?&L=1
The 1990s also saw turbulent economic and political times in Romania.
http://focus-migration.hwwi.de/Romania.2515.0.html?&L=1
From the mid-1990s, many people from the Republic of Moldova have emigrated to Romania.
http://focus-migration.hwwi.de/Romania.2515.0.html?&L=1
It is estimated that 3.4 million Romanians were working abroad in mid-2007 (both legally and illegally).
http://focus-migration.hwwi.de/Romania.2515.0.html?&L=1
In the early 1990s, Romania was a major source of asylum-seekers in Europe with 402,000 applications submitted
http://focus-migration.hwwi.de/Romania.2515.0.html?&L=1
During the 1990s, Romania became both a source and a transit country of human trafficking.
http://focus-migration.hwwi.de/Romania.2515.0.html?&L=1
Following the end of the revolution (1989), the borders opened and there was massive emigration with 96,929 leaving in 1990 alone.
http://iom.hu/PDF/migration_profiles2008/Romania_Profile2008.pdf
Romania joined the EU in 2007
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36704783
223 000 Romanians living in the UK in 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36704783
In 2014, it was estimates that 3 million Romanians were studying or working in another EU country (mainly in Spain and Italy)
http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migration-health/international-migration-outlook-2016_migr_outlook-2016-en#pag e296
On December 31st 2013, the restriction on the number of Romanian’s working in the UK was lifted.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gandul-romania-uk-campaign-kate-430006
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