> For Romania up to now it's mostly criminals who travel. I guess due to distance
The Romanian diaspora in Western Europe is well over a million people. The vast majority of them are people from low-prospect regions in Romania who do all manner of perfectly honorable, albeit unskilled labor for Western Europe countries. A substantial minority of them are well-educated city people who leave for abroad after university, because skilled labor in Romania pays less than what they would desire.
I don’t deny there is some small minority of criminals, but you are oblivious to all of the completely ordinary Gastarbeiter-type emigration to Western Europe.
Also, the common Western Europe conflation of ethnic Roma with ethnic Romanians with criminals has had some very unfair results for Romania the country. A lot of times those Roma you see – who, again, might not necessarily be involved in crime – are actually from Bulgaria (or the former Yugoslavia), but no one bothers to tell the difference.
> I guess due to distance
You do realize that Romania is well-connected to the rest of Europe with budget airlines now? Even before them, there is a well-developed network of buses that mainly served to carry workers back and forth from Western Europe in as little as one overnight journey.
The Romanian diaspora in Western Europe is well over a million people. The vast majority of them are people from low-prospect regions in Romania who do all manner of perfectly honorable, albeit unskilled labor for Western Europe countries. A substantial minority of them are well-educated city people who leave for abroad after university, because skilled labor in Romania pays less than what they would desire.
I don’t deny there is some small minority of criminals, but you are oblivious to all of the completely ordinary Gastarbeiter-type emigration to Western Europe.
Also, the common Western Europe conflation of ethnic Roma with ethnic Romanians with criminals has had some very unfair results for Romania the country. A lot of times those Roma you see – who, again, might not necessarily be involved in crime – are actually from Bulgaria (or the former Yugoslavia), but no one bothers to tell the difference.
> I guess due to distance
You do realize that Romania is well-connected to the rest of Europe with budget airlines now? Even before them, there is a well-developed network of buses that mainly served to carry workers back and forth from Western Europe in as little as one overnight journey.