Copiii migranţilor: Cauza emigrării şi/sau motivaţia reîntoarcerii (cazul Republicii Moldova)

Abstract

Family is the foundation of a society, the "basic cell" of a country. Given that the impact of migration falls upon such essential institution as family is, it proves the importance of a complex analysis of family-migration mutual influence. In recent years, in Moldova, labor migration has acquired a mass character, leading to a significant increase of the number of children without parental care. Migrant parents‟ tend to provide children with a better living environment, unfortunately has negative social consequences: broken families, children without parental care and comfort. These children develop vague personalities, and consequently, form a generation of adults with social integration problems. Frequent comebacks home of the parents could greatly reduce the psychological and social costs of separation of their children. We explore reasons for return migrations which are motivated by immigrants‟ concerns about their children. We show that parental concerns about the child may lead to an increase, or to a decrease in the tendency to return home.