Highly-skilled intellectual immigrants from Eastern-Europe (Romanians) in Western countries

Highly-skilled intellectual immigrants from Eastern Europe are a target-group with still unstudied immigration patterns and an unadapted immigration policy.Their immigration forms a new and special form of intra-European brain drain from East to West. Their identity and socio-economic position is unknown, unstudied, almost unrecognised, yet at the same time they posses the resources to liaise between East and West in many areas.

The study aims to gather knowledge about their immigration patterns and to make a contribution to a knowledge base for the development of a policy to exploit the advantages of their intellectual potential, by considering them as "bridge persons" between Eastern and Western countries. To ensure an as broad as possible relevance, the study comprises comparative research in six Western European countries and their country of origin.

Book  articles and papers presented at conferences

Coordinator: Dr. Monica Savulescu-Voudouris, Research Fellow

• University of  Bucurest Fac,   Sociology, Bucurest (students)
• University of Babes-Bolyai ,   Fac. European Studies (students), Cluj-Napoca
• Universitatea Bucuresti, Fac. Political Science (students)
• Television Romania International (face to face interviews)

• Romanian Government, Fundatia Culturala Romana
• Television Romania International
• ERCOMER / The Netherlands