A web article over the migration phenomenon and its effects

Adrian Horincar

9th January 2009, in the “Adevarul” newspaper

Article, Web Article

Romanian

This article looks into the negative effects of the forced migration of peasants to the city by the communist party: it changed people`s way of thinking and behaving and it finally changed society. The sense of belonging to a community, of being regulated by it, its informal control was destroyed giving way to a misunderstood sense of freedom which allows you to do bad things under the cover of anonymity.

It sheds light on way people behave `strangely` in a new country/environment: they try to recreate their original space, to preserve thus their identity. Hence, growing plants and animals in one`s balcony was not a sign of savagery or miseducation, but a desperate try to create a familiar space, establishing a sense of protection.

www.adevarul.ro

Sebastian Neculoiu

`Carmen Sylva` High school, Timisoara, Romania

Pupil - researcher