<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>International migration represents one of the most important aspects of globalization that contributes to the evolution and transformation of our lives. In 2000, as the United Nations reports showed, approximately 175 million people lived outside their native country for more than 12 months, a number that doubled with respect to the reference year 1975. This means that there are more and more “clashes” between people around the globe, involving greater responsibility for states in integrating the “moving” society. The public perception is continuously impacted by the migration phenomenon in its different aspects, but the effects are highly dependent on the communities’ social, cultural and religious pre-determination. In this respect, our paper aims to analyse the reflection of the traditional values of the host society to the individual perceptions on immigration, as expressed in various social media. In our view, in order to maximize the success potential of the public policies adopted by the host states in the field of immigration, these must be tightly correlated with the traditional social values, as observed in the real context, and also closely follow the evolution of these values, as expressed in the digital space. For this purpose, we will compare the social media and real life to show differences and resemblances of the attitudes towards the immigrants who might come in Romania from Middle East.</p></abstract>

International migration represents one of the most important aspects of globalization that contributes to the evolution and transformation of our lives. In 2000, as the United Nations reports showed, approximately 175 million people lived outside their native country for more than 12 months, a number that doubled with respect to the reference year 1975. This means that there are more and more “clashes” between people around the globe, involving greater responsibility for states in integrating the “moving” society. The public perception is continuously impacted by the migration phenomenon in its different aspects, but the effects are highly dependent on the communities’ social, cultural and religious pre-determination. In this respect, our paper aims to analyse the reflection of the traditional values of the host society to the individual perceptions on immigration, as expressed in various social media. In our view, in order to maximize the success potential of the public policies adopted by the host states in the field of immigration, these must be tightly correlated with the traditional social values, as observed in the real context, and also closely follow the evolution of these values, as expressed in the digital space. For this purpose, we will compare the social media and real life to show differences and resemblances of the attitudes towards the immigrants who might come in Romania from Middle East.

Migration and globalization: citizen journalism and immigration policies

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Critical Infrastructures and Cybersecurity Department, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics

Department of Foreign Languages, Military Sciences and Management

HOLISTICA – Journal of Business and Public Administration

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International migration represents one of the most important aspects of globalization that contributes to the evolution and transformation of our lives. In...

Migration and globalization: citizen journalism and immigration policies

Published Online: Dec 04, 2019

Page range: 157 - 169

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjbpa-2019-0035

Keywords
migration, social media, labour market, integration, public policy, social reaction

© 2019 Sorinel Ionel Vasilca et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Migration and globalization: citizen journalism and immigration policies

Published Online: Dec 04, 2019

Page range: 157 - 169

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjbpa-2019-0035

Keywordsmigration, social media, labour market, integration, public policy, social reaction

© 2019 Sorinel Ionel Vasilca et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
migration, social media, labour market, integration, public policy, social reaction