RESUMENEn el ámbito de la geografía de la población, por lo general no se ha prestado atención suficiente a los movimientos forzados. A lo largo de este artículo se analiza el establecimiento y los motivos que llevaron a las redes de trata de personas a aparecer y desarrollarse de una manera muy importante en la República de Moldavia tras la caída de la URSS. Para atajar el problema, en una primera parte se analizan los factores internos que provocaron la predisposición de la población a dejar su país, para, en la segunda sección, revisar cómo afectaron al problema los factores externos de atracción que pusieron en marcha el «efecto llamada».Palabras clave: Tráfico de seres humanos, Moldavia, migraciones forzadas, espacio postsoviético, geografía de la población.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN POSTSOVIET MOLDOVA (1991-2004) ABSTRACTUsually the researchers devoted to population geography have not paid enough attention to the forced migration processes. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the set up and main motives that leaded to the creation and great success of human trafficking organizations in the Republic of Moldova after the disintegration of the Soviet Union-In order to fulfill the objective there will be a first section where we will analyze the push factors that made the population more likely to abandon their homeland and then, in the second section we will check how pull factors affected the situation in Moldova creating a «magnet effect» scenario.
Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, some historical legacies of the communist system still influence individual political attitudes. This article explores how historical legacies influence individual political and geopolitical preferences in three Ukrainian cities. We focus on the effects of parental and individual CPSU membership over individual support for EU/NATO membership, on perceptions of the Soviet period for Ukraine, and on the perceived legitimacy of the 11 May 2014 “Donetsk People’s Republic” independence referendum. Using survey data collected in Dnipro and Kharkiv in 2018, and in Mariupol in 2020, we show that (individual or parental) CPSU affiliation is positively correlated with pro-Western attitudes, indicating that many former members of the CPSU and their descendants have reoriented their geopolitical allegiances from East to West. Or, alternatively, that they are relatively politically adaptive and that their allegiance to communism wasn’t fully solid in the first place.
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