European Journal. Moldova: Involuntary Nation-State

I consider this video to be an excellent example of the reasons for massive immigration of Moldovan citizens overseas. It is short, yet informative and sets a great volume of vitally important questions e.g. the reasons for immigration itself and its promotion (billboards advertising immigration to Canada), broken families and children who suddenly became “orphans” despite de jure having parents (the majority of schoolchildren whose parents work abroad), faith in God and inability to live decent “God-promised” life (the priest`s words: "You have to suppress you desires and be satisfied with basic necessities. Young people have faith, but still give up after a time: they just can`t cope with this kind of life".),  access to food and inability of purchasing it, exploitation of the poor by foreign companies and globalization, education + culture and poverty, racism and stereotypes, which immigrants and work migrants come across when moving to other countries. 

As a person who has travelled to Moldova on several times, I can safely say that this video reveals the Moldovan reality: the only place that is different from what you saw is the capital of Moldova – Chisinau with its 5 star hotels, casinos, supermarkets and restaurants. The rest of the country is comprised of villages which share the same unpromising landscape, socio-economic problems and numerous houses, abandoned by Moldovan work migrants and illegal immigrants. Basically this video speaks for itself and by revealing the push factors for mass emigration leads us to specific conclusions which make us understand that decent life conditions in Moldova are if not non existent, then definitely far from EU and any humane standards. In a way my point is proven by the testimonials of ex, to-be Moldovan work migrants and non migrants, who in terms of a survey, conducted by the International organization of Migration of Moldova, answered the following questions:

In my posts I am going to present and analyse general information about work migrants from Ukraine and Moldova in Greece what will help you understand the main push and pull factors, the age/education/skills/etc. image of work migrants of the two countries, the problems that they come across in Greece and the origins of these problems, as well as costs and benefits of work migration for the migrants` families, for their countries of origin and destination. Due to the fact that Greece is a hard and quite "closed" country for foreign investment, there are very few Ukrainian and Moldovan businessmen who operate in Greece, that is why I am going to focus  on work migrants only.