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Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at 8 million people by then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Austria), North America (Canada and the United States), South ...
According to DIICOT, Romania has evolved since 1990 from a country of transit for illegal migrants to a country of destination. [4] Within the European Union, the country has the second highest rate of immigration from non-EU countries (86%), just behind Slovenia (90%). [5] Most immigrants in Romania are from Europe.
There is a sizable Romani minority in Romania, known as Ţigani in Romanian and, recently, as Rromi, of 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population (2011 census), although the Council of Europe estimates the figure to be 1.85 million people or 8.32% of the population. [127]
An Afro-Romani community exists in St. Martin Parish due to intermarriage between freed African American and Romani slaves. [96] The Romani population in the United States is estimated at more than one million. [l] There are between 800,000 and 1 million Roma in Brazil, most of whose ancestors emigrated in the 19th century from Eastern Europe.
It is, however, worth noting that the dates above relate principally to the first arrival of Roma in future Romanian territories, waves of migration from the south continued up until the 18th century, when the northward migration of the Roma, some of whom were Turkish-speaking Muslims, was still occurring. [30]
Romanians in Italy (Romanian: românii din Italia; Italian: romeni in Italia or rumeni in Italia) became a significant population after 1999, due to a large wave of emigration known in Romania as Fenomenul migrației către UE (the phenomenon of migration toward the European Union).
In 2009, France deported 10,000 Romani back to Romania and Bulgaria.The next year, at least another 8,300 Romani were deported up until August. [14] Between July and September 2010, at least 51 Romani camps were demolished, and France expelled at least 1,230 non-French Romani (conflating those French Romani involved in disturbances at Saint-Aignan with Bulgarian and Romanian citizens being ...
From 1815 to 1932, 65 million people left Europe (with many returning home), primarily to areas of European settlement in North and South America, [3] in addition to South Africa, Australia, [4] New Zealand, and Siberia. [5] These populations also multiplied rapidly in their new habitat; much more so than the populations of Africa and Asia.