Paper short abstract:

The Romanian communities in Sweden and Denmark reunite more than three generations of migrants. Their stories may speak about breaking the rules of communism and learning freedom in the adoption countries. It is important to study their identity and how they narrate the migration experience.

Paper long abstract:

The Romanian communities in Sweden and Denmark reunite more than three generations of migrants. Their stories may speak about breaking the rules of communism and learning freedom in the adoption countries. It is important to study their identity and how they narrate the migration experience. It is important to document the passing from hard political rules to the freedom characteristic of the new adoption countries, how people – Romanian migrants perceived, felt this passing from rough political, socio-cultural rules to the normality of no specific political rules, the freedom of speech and written words, the freedom of movement, the freedom of thinking, the missing political, socio-cultural rules that were so hard formulated in communist Romania.

Given the chosen topic, objectives, goals and universe of field research, I will choose as a way of approaching triangulation, the reunion of three methodologies for investigating the phenomenon studied in order to have a more detailed analysis of it. I will use, therefore, the sociological questionnaire - quantitative method, non-directive interview and life history or social biography, but also the content analysis of social documents (magazines published by the community, messages of community members investigated on various forums and social networks, letters, e-mails, photos from the personal archives of the respondents).

The creation of the Diocese of Northern Europe and the designation, in July 2008, of the first Bishop of Northern Europe, His Eminence Macarie Drăgoi, led to a more accentuated coagulation of the Romanian community in Sweden around the already existing parishes.