The first international conference of the Romanian Network for Migration Studies (RoMig)

The first international conference of the Romanian Network for Migration Studies (RoMig)

In the 5th and the 6th of September 2017, the Romanian Network for Migration Studies (RoMig - http://romig.ro/) held its first international conference in Cluj Napoca. The conference, Migration from and towards Romania. Research, Policy and Practice, was co-organized by RoMig in partnership with the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FSPAC) at the Babeş-Bolyai University (UBB), which was also the host of the event, Romanian Center for Comparative Migration Studies (UBB), the Research Institute for Quality of Life (ICCV) and the Gh. Zane Institute for Economic and Social Research from the Romanian Academy, and the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN). It benefitted from the presence of Professor Oded Stark (Universities of Bonn, Tuebingen, and Warsaw, Georgetown University, http://ostark.uni-klu.ac.at/), who generously shared his current work with the audience, in a Distinguished Lecture on Social Preferences and Economic Behavior.

The annual conference aims to stimulate the research in migration studies, focusing on Romanians' international migration. The event brought together in Cluj over 50 researchers in the field of migration, affiliated in Romania and/or abroad. The discussions were catalysed by 26 presentations and 8 posters.