Romanian Urban Areas: Territorial, Economic and Socio-Cultural Hallmarks of the Chinese Minority

Abstract

Since 1990s, many Chinese immigrants have come to Romania and they are numbering, nowadays, 2 017 people (83% of the total legal Chinese residents live in urban areas). The aim of this paper is to analyze the territorial, economic and socio-cultural hallmarks of the Chinese minority established in the Romanian urban areas. To meet this objective, both qualitative (interviews and observations) and quantitative (selecting, structuring and valorizing the statistical raw data) methods were used. This study is important due to its multi-territorial levels approach and to its results (e.g. revealing that the economic hallmark influences and shapes the territorial traces of the Chinese minority, identifying the Chinese children as being a sort of ”driving force” which would facilitate the social and linguistic integration of the Chinese minority into the Romanian society) which could support and suggest new topics for the geographical research.

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“…• Digitalization and beyond: the effects of Covid-19 on post-pandemic educational policy and delivery in Europe and in Romania (Parysek, Mierzejewska, 2021;Uzzoli et al, 2021;Mocanu et al, 2021;Zancajo et al, 2022;Săgeată, 2022;Săgeată et al, 2023); • Examining students' attitudes towards online education during Covid-19 pandemic (Sun et al, 2020;Edelhauser, Lupu-Dima, 2020& 2021); • The impact of digitalization on educational and administrative systems pre-and post-Covid-19 pandemic crisis (Cucoş, 2006;Ionescu et al, 2020;Paven & Banaduc, 2022).…”

The Chinese minority in Bucharest: A case study of Chinese children raised and cared for by Romanian nannies

“…The Chinese minority, as an investor in the Romanian economy, has piqued the interest of Romanian and foreign scientists (e.g. Păcurar, 2004;Wundrak, 2007Wundrak, , 2010Nyíri, 2007;Xiao, 2010;Toader, 2011;Ondreicsik, 2012;Săgeată, 2014, Mocanu et al, 2019 in terms of its economic features and/or spatial issues stemming from said economic characteristics. On the contrary, the academic papers discussing the growing Chinese minority, as a community in Romania in general, and Bucharest, in particular, are few.…”