1. International Workshop on Methodological Challenges for the Study of Return and Circular Migration Madrid, 22-23 January 2015 TEMPER Project RETURN MIGRATION Romanian case Nicoleta Caragea INS, Romania General Department of Demography and Social Statistics

2. Data sources on international immigration  Administrative data sources General Inspectorate for Immigration  Data on Definitive International Immigration - when the person settles the permanent residence on the territory of Romania, he(she) having previously the usual residence in another country  Statistical data sources LFS (estimates for international migration stocks) Mirror statistics  PADRON – INE Spain  ISTAT – Italy  Eurostat and other official statistical institutes (for the international migration structure benchmark, by country of previous residence)

3. Data on immigration and returns, by citizenship, country of previous residence and country of birth Romania (annual flows during 2008-2013) Immigrants = citizens from all countries (foreigners and Romanians) who establish the usual residence on Romania’s territory for a period of at least 12 months (acording to Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 Of The European Parliament and Of The Council on Community statistics on migration and international protection) Returns = Romanian citizens who return to Romania after a period of absence of at least 12 months persons/yearsImmigrants ReturnsPotential returns CTZ=RoPRV=Sp (all CTZ)CoB=Ro (all CTZ)CoB=Sp (all CTZ) 2008138929126757337571271191043 2009135844124936515491238461542 2010149885136799494261141741945 2011147685138397425051101982247 2012167266155613638791323123286 2013 153646 138923 67164 120149 4226

4. Potential returns CoB=Sp (all CTZ)< 15 years old (%) 2008104385.1 2009154288.9 2010194592.9 2011224788.8 2012328697.5 2013 422698.0 children born in Spain from Romanian parents

5. Difficulties in assessing return migration:  there is not a special sample survey on international migration in Romania  data are estimates at macro level other level of disaggregation: age and sex no possibility to analyze the impact of the returns by returned people’s profile (especially labor impacts)  no data available by crossing PRV with CTZ and CoB  no data on circular migration

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