Paper short abstract:

Different migrations of population from one region of the country to another, from the country side to the city and backwards, due to the politics of the communist regime of population homogenization, nowadays the migrations to (but not only to) the Western Europe, have created countless one-generation family.

Paper long abstract:

The contemporary Romanian urban society itself is the result of population homogenization politics and often leaves behind in the trains the strong smell of the bags stuffed with onion, meat and potatoes "from home". In most cases, for more than 40 years, the sons and daughters, regardless of age, will bring from the town with almost empty groceries (basic food being rationalized) only symbolic gifts, bread or some sweets "from town" and they will bring back from their visit supplies as much as they can carry. The obsession of heavy baggage, illustrated by the expression "not to leave from me with empty hands", this circuit of aliments, a true strategy in the subsistence economy, consolidated on a very well articulated ritual, still follows us.

We witness today the confrontation between the traditional family model, which gathers cyclically or pyramidally on several generations power, influence and money and the pioneer's model, belonging to the ones taken from the country side to the (university or industrial) city. They are the ones who exchanged the land for the salary, the late being used for accumulating goods and consolidating identities.

Now, unemployed, or retired without a reasonable economy, they found themselves useless in the world that they built. Creeping an incomplete existence, they acquired the status of "venetic" (unwanted alien).

Our study follows the transfer of the property along this migration complex, after, which crossed three regimes: monarchy, communist dictatorship, democracy.