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*Over half of the country's foreign-born residents originate from '''Republic of Moldova'''. Owing to the former period of union between most of Moldova and Romania, many Moldovans are eligible for Romanian citizenship on the basis of descent. Many immigrants from the Republic of Moldova prefer to settle in the '''Romanian counties from the region of Moldavia''', because there the culture is more similar to their home country.<ref name="imm">"Immigration to Romania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Romania, accessed 5 July 2021.</ref> | *Over half of the country's foreign-born residents originate from '''Republic of Moldova'''. Owing to the former period of union between most of Moldova and Romania, many Moldovans are eligible for Romanian citizenship on the basis of descent. Many immigrants from the Republic of Moldova prefer to settle in the '''Romanian counties from the region of Moldavia''', because there the culture is more similar to their home country.<ref name="imm">"Immigration to Romania", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Romania, accessed 5 July 2021.</ref> | ||
*Romanians in '''Italy''' became a significant population after 1999, due to a large wave of emigration. A large part of Romanian emigrants went to '''Spain or Italy''', whose national languages are Romance languages like Romanian. They were followed by another wave beginning in 2002, when Romanian citizens obtained the right to move to any Schengen Zone country without a visa. As of 2019, there were 1,145,718 Romanian citizens living in Italy.<ref>"Romanians in Spain", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanians_in_Italy, accessed 5 July 2021.</ref> | *Romanians in '''Italy''' became a significant population after 1999, due to a large wave of emigration. A large part of Romanian emigrants went to '''Spain or Italy''', whose national languages are Romance languages like Romanian. They were followed by another wave beginning in 2002, when Romanian citizens obtained the right to move to any Schengen Zone country without a visa. As of 2019, there were 1,145,718 Romanian citizens living in Italy.<ref>"Romanians in Spain", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanians_in_Italy, accessed 5 July 2021.</ref> | ||
*Top fifteen immigrant populations by 2017: | *Emigration to '''Spain''' started to increase slowly during the late 1990s, and exploded after 2002. By 2011, it reached a peak of nearly 900,000 people, after which the Romanian population has been steadily decreasing, falling to 669,434 by 2019.<ref>"Romanians in Spain", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanians_in_Spain, accessed 5 July 2021.</ref> | ||
*In recent years, considerable numbers of '''Chinese and Vietnamese''' citizens work in Romania, due to the emigration of a large part of the Romanian workforce. There are also workers from '''Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Serbia, Lebanon, Turkey'''. Many '''Chinese''' live in the '''Ilfov County (the county surrounding Bucharest)'''.<ref name="imm"/> | |||
*Arabs in Romania come primarily from '''Syria (including refugees of the Syrian Civil War), Lebanon, Iraq and Tunisia'''. In 2018, most '''asylum applicants''' were from Iraq, Syria and Iran. | |||
*Africans come primarily to '''study in Romania''', most of them from the '''Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo'''. | |||
*Top fifteen immigrant populations by 2017: (For populations in additional countries, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Romania#Statistics Immigration to Romania: Statistics] | |||
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