Book review Anatolie Coșciug (coordinator), Perspective empirice asupra imigrației în România. De la țară de tranzit la țară de destinație [Empirical perspectives on immigration in Romania. From a transit country to a country of destination] Timișoara, Editura de Vest, 2022, 142 pp., ISBN 978-973-36-0820-2

Abstract

The volume coordinated by Anatolie Coșciug, suggestively titled “Empirical perspectives on immigration in Romania. From a transit country to a country of destination” brings together theoretical approaches well established in the migration studies, and field research, managing to capture both institutional and social aspects, based on the perspective of the host community and immigrants alike. If in other Western European countries, the studies on the integration of immigrants in the host societies already have a tradition, in Romania this theme has only been approached relatively recently. Considered and analysed rather from the positions of a source country for emigrants or a transit country, Romania has experienced a constant increase in the number of newcomers in recent years, and these developments deserve, of course, to be understood and interpreted in a scientific manner. In this sense, the book presents the results of a fourth study of a series that started in 2017, results obtained within the CRCMIS project - the Romanian Migration and Social Inclusion Research Center carried out by the Center for the Comparative Study of Migration in partnership with The Romanian Association for the Promotion of Quality and Successful Practices (ARPCPS) and the Human Rights Defense League (LADO) - Cluj Branch.