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COUNTRY MAPPING ARTICLE OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL ORIENTATION PROGRAMMES IN ROMANIA

S. Witec

Abstract

The legal framework for courses, social integration programmes for foreign citizens consists of a series of normative acts representing primary legislation and respectively, secondary legislation. Romania has been having a legislation in the field of integration since 2004. Certain ministries and the local authorities are the main attributions in this area. The legislation is in the process of changing. We try to adapt to the existing situation, to the new needs, to the new requirements at European level. In this respect, it is likely that the legislation will undergo some changes in the near future. In Romania, each institutional actor (The Ministry of Home Affairs, The Ministry of National Education, The Ministry of Labour and Social Justice, The Ministry of Health, etc.) is responsible for integrating non-nationals in its field of activity, coordinating and monitoring the policy of the Ministry of Home Affairs through the General Inspectorate for Immigration (GII), which also has the task of providing, through its regional structures, specific services to facilitate the integration into the Romanian society of different categories of foreigners. Institutional coordination is mainly done through meetings with decision makers (organised according to the National Immigration Strategy) and expert meetings (regularly organised by the General Inspectorate for Immigration through the Asylum and Integration Directorate). According to the GII data, the number of non-nationals in Romania fluctuated slightly between 2007 and 2017, standing at about 100,000, of which about 40,000 are EU citizens. At 31.12.2016 there were 112,144 non-nationals in Romania, of which 58% were from third countries and 42% from EU and EEA countries. Aims of the courses The objective of the Romanian language learning course is to provide an elementary level of language that facilitates integration into the Romanian society. The objectives of the cultural accommodation sessions are: to initiate and facilitate the integration process in Romania; to provide a more accurate picture of the realities in Romania; to raise awareness.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/3.3/S12.016

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