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| ROMANIANS WORKING ABROAD 17/04/2008 |
| (2008-04-17) |
| Last updated: 2008-04-18 15:21 EET |
Romanians employed abroad send back to their families in the country several billion Euros a year. In 2007, for instance, over 5 billion Euros came into the country. More often than not, Romanian migrants, most of them aged under 40, leave their children at home, in the care of grandparents or other close relatives. The main reason for migration is economic, while the primary hindrance, namely separation from their children, is only important for one-fifth of parents. According to a survey commissioned by UNICEF and carried out by Gallup Romania in 2007, eight out of one hundred children in Romania have at least one parent working abroad. Approximately 350,000 Romanian children, over half of whom live in rural communities, have been affected by their parents' migration, with over one-third of them deprived of the presence of both parents.
The number of these children is five times larger than that reported to the National Child Protection Agency. According to the UNICEF survey report, half of the children having both parents employed abroad are under ten years of age, and over 50 per cent of these are between two and six years old. Close to one-third of the total number of children of migrant parents live in Moldavia (eastern Romania), 55,000 in Muntenia ( southern Romania), 50,000 in Transylvania (central and western Romania) and the same figure in Oltenia (in the south).
As for the time spent without parents, the survey indicates that 16 per cent of children with both parents working abroad have spent more than a year without them, and 3 per cent more than 4 years. Where both parents are away, 74 per cent of these children live with their grandparents, and the others are looked after by uncles, aunts or elder siblings. A related phenomenon, according to the research, is that 2 per cent of the total number of children with at least one migrant parent have dropped out of school.
As for the relationships between children and their migrant parents, most of these parents have come back to Romania at least once over the past year, while 32 per cent of the parents employed abroad haven't seen their children in the last 12 months. To make up for their absence, roughly 80 per cent of the migrant parents talk to their children on the phone at least once a week, and send them money or other goods every month, according to the UNICEF survey.
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