Welcome to the Romanian Network for Migration Studies

Migration has turned out to be a fertile ground for researching transformations of the Romanian society, producing new challenges and various effects in the society. A complex phenomenon, the Romanian migration has incorporated various components over the last decades, expanding in both scope and significance. It encompasses substantial long-term and temporary migration, return migration, transit migration and more recently, immigration. Scholarship on Romanian migration expanded, many innovative national and European research projects highlighting various facets. In spite of this growth, there is still an acute need to engage in a continuous dialogue regarding diverse theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and analytical techniques to study its complex and often its puzzling realities. The 5th RoMig Conference invites scholars interested in migration to deepen our understanding of both how Romanian migration is structured and reconfigured under the conditions of unbounded possibilities of intra-EU mobility, as well as expanding the horizons for studying its direct and hidden impacts. Since Romanian migration does not represent a unique and isolated phenomenon, we welcome submissions that introduce aspects of migration from other national contexts or conceptual approaches in order to open new methodological perspectives and theoretical explorations.

Academics, students and practitioners working in the field of migration and social integration are welcomed to submit abstracts aligned with the following topics:

● Migration, ethnicity and identity;
● Migration and development nexus;
● Migration, employment and labour markets;
● Seasonal migration;
● Educational migration;
● Diasporas and remittances;
● Migration, transnationalism and social change;
● The mobility transition pattern;
● Refugee and asylum migration;
● Migration policies: evolution and effectiveness;
● Data sources and their uses in the study of migration.

Key dates

• Deadline for abstract submission: August 31, 2025
• Acceptance decision: September 15, 2025
• Deadline for registration: October 15, 2025
• Dates of RoMig Conference: October 31 – November 1, 2025

Keynote speakers

• Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

Scientific Committee

• Remus Gabriel Anghel – National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest & Romanian Institute of Research on National Minorities
• Alina Botezat – Gh. Zane Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iași
• Cristian Încalțărău – Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași
• Gratiela Noja – West University of Timișoara
• Ciprian Pânzaru – West University of Timișoara
• Monica Roman – Bucharest University of Economic Studies
• Monica Șerban – Research Institute for Quality of Life (ICCV), Romanian Academy
• Viorela Telegdi-Csetri – Babeș Bolyai University
• Ionela Vlase – Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu