Because of Lack of Jobs, European Migrants Return Home

Constantin Marius Mituletu is finally heading home to Romania, after six whole years of being in the construction business. Mituletu is yet another victim of the recession which is currently making its effects be felt all over Europe. The thirty year old Mituletu says that there is no work in Romania, but that ought not be the case because of twenty six million people living there. Certainly, they are keeping themselves busy. Mituletu is arranging his trip back to Romania sometime next month.

He is one of several million migrants coming from Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America who have gone to places such as Ireland, Spain and Britain this decade because of the fast-growing nature of these countries. Their reason for flocking to these countries is because of low unemployment rate as well as liberal immigration policies. But now that the economies of cities in Western Europe are experiencing deterioration, there are many workers such as Mituletu who have decided to come home. He and others like him are in search of better jobs at most or lower their costs of living in their home countries at the very least.

Moving Around and About

In a lot of ways, this was exactly what the EU or the European Union had been designed for – an entire zone wherein workers are free to move around and about so that they may look for good jobs for themselves. However, the continually worsening economic crisis remains, and the result is that there are many emerging fault lines all across their continent – where borders end up being porous yet national identities are still quite fixed. The workers are still indeed quite theoretically equal when you consider their being under the rule of Europe.

However, some are more equal compared to others. A good example of this would be Dublinski, which is the capital of Ireland. Dublinski had earned its nicknames because there are around one hundred and eighty thousand people coming from Poland, the Czech republic and many other Eastern European nations that are looking for work ever since the expansion of the European Union back in the year 2004. At present, there is an incredibly alarming rise in their unemployment rate – roughly standing at a shocking eleven percent. Such a figure is currently making a lot of arrivals step back and rethink their own plans of searching for job prospects.
 

Intra-nation Migration in Europe

Ever since the year 2000, there was a lot of intra-migration within European nations. This was according to migration scholar Rainer Munz, who is also the Erste Bank (located in Vienna) head of the research and development department. To some extent, that is what is unwinding at the moment. There are more than fifty thousand workers all returning back to Ireland and other Eastern European nations, based on information taken from Alan Barrett who is from the Dublin-based Economic and Social Research Institute.