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Top fifteen immigrant populations by 2017: | *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. | ||
Estimate immigrants to Romania (as of mid-2017, including refugees): | *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> | ||
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Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at FindMyPast; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Romania
- 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of Romania
- 1942 Romania, Passengers on the Struma, 1942 at Ancestry; index only ($)
- 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Choose a volume and then choose your country under "Listed by Port of Departure" or "Listed by Port of Arrival".
- Immigrant Ancestors Project
Immigration to Romania[edit | edit source]
- 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.Cite error: Closing
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- Estimate immigrants to Romania (as of mid-2017, including refugees):[1]
- Moldova - 151,000
- Italy - 51,000
- Spain - 39,000
- Ukraine - 16,000
- Bulgaria - 14,000
- France - 9,000
- Germany - 9,000
- Hungary - 8,000
- Serbia (with Kosovo) - 8,000
- Turkey - 8,000
- Russia - 7,000
- United Kingdom - 7,000
- Greece - 6,000
- China - 5,000
- United States - 4,000
Emigration from Romania[edit | edit source]
Romanians, who emigrated for the first time in larger figures between 1910 and 1925, and left in mass after the fall of communist regime in Romania in 1989, are found today in large numbers in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Belgium, the U.K., Ireland, China, Japan, Australia, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina'. Today there are over 10 million people of Romanian descent outside the country.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedimm - ↑ "List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#R, accessed 5 July 2021.