The Moldovans go abroad in order to live better, but there is also one more aspect – they run away from the political realities because they cannot endure such an atmosphere when the political class defies all the norms of morality, and want to change the motherland for another country where the political situation is stable, vice director of the Institute of Legal and Political Research Victor Juc said in a roundtable meeting centering on the sociopolitical and demographic effects of migration, IPN reports.
According to Victor Juc, the problem of migration in Moldova is especially serious because the country faces depopulation. A strategy should be worked out to manage the demographic processes, which would allow determining how many Moldovans went abroad and if the elections can be validated, given that the data presented by the Central Election Commission and the National Bureau of Statistics differ.
As regards the cash transfers from aboard, which are considered a positive aspect of migration, Victor Juc said the flow of remittances from Europe will decrease because many families settle abroad, but the financial resources coming from Russia will also diminish in volume because the migration policy is better defined and is not permissive.
According to statistics, less than 30% of the Moldovan young people with higher education work in the areas in which they specialized. The others changed their qualifications, while many go abroad and contribute to a larger brain drain. “If a jurist studied in Moldova, but works in Italy as a taxi driver, this is a loss of brains for Moldova, not yet for the country where he works,” said Alexander Seidl, the representative of the German Center for International Migration and Development. He considers the education system in Moldova should be fully reformed.
Victor Moraru, of the Institute of Legal and Political Research, said migration is a natural phenomenon that cannot be stopped. The task is to optimize the migration flows. “The situation is indeed dramatic because the villages become empty and the authorities should take attitude for this process not to be so massive,” he stated. “A special program is needed to optimize migration. We must study the positive practice of the neighboring states. Regrettably, Romania also didn’t find solutions to this problem. But our embassies should make a special effort to make sure that our migrants live decently abroad.”
Anatolie Cosciug, who is studying for his doctorate at the Bielefeld University of Germany, considers that migration should be allowed to manage itself. “The freer this phenomenon is, the better. The people know to organize themselves so as to do what’s better for themselves and their families. The state should do nothing, but should only make sure that the state border is crossed legally, that the children are safe and should allow the migrants to cope themselves,” said the researcher. He noted that migration is beneficial because the state does not invest in migrants, but these come with business ideas and bring money.
