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This thesis on cultural and political geography provides a list of factors that have favoured the accelerated growth of the Romanian community residing in the Brussels-Capital Region. According to official data, in 2020 Romanians represent, for the third consecutive year, the second largest community of foreigners in Brussels, after the French. 
The study, which is based on combined techniques of qualitative and quantitative research and which involved ten months of complete immersion of the author in the studied community, signals the emergence of a new migratory flow composed of Romanians belonging to a middle class who chose emigration as a last resort. achieving a standard of living commensurate with their professional training. The study also provides, for the first time, a map of the distribution of Romanians in the nineteen communes of the Brussels-Capital Region and a comparative analysis in relation to other ethnic groups with strong representation in the Belgian capital.

migration --- Romania --- Brussels --- Belgium --- sense of place --- middle class --- Eastern Europe --- migratory flows --- ethnic communities --- cultural geography --- political geography --- urban sociology --- territorial development --- Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie > Géographie humaine & démographie

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This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and methodological expertise, the book addresses a range of crucial issues related to both researcher-designed data collections and the secondary use of “big data”, highlighting opportunities as well as challenges and limitations. A valuable source for students and scholars engaged in migration research, the book will also be of keen interest to policymakers.

Migration, immigration & emigration --- Public administration --- Quantitative migration research --- Available administrative sources --- Forced migrants in the global North and South --- General population surveys --- Reliable quantitative information --- Migratory flows and populations --- Sampling and data collection --- Intercultural differences --- Survey design issues --- Absence of suitable sampling frames --- Target population --- Migration research --- Internally displaced persons --- Social networking sites --- Internet survey --- Data collection --- Transnational human mobility

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Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.

Capitalism --- Vergleichende Kapitalismusforschung --- Wirtschaftsordnung --- Westliche Staaten --- Kapitalismus --- Capitalism. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Westliche Welt --- E-books --- Public welfare --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Kapitalistische Gesellschaft --- Kapitalistische Wirtschaft --- Kapitalistisches Gesellschaftssystem --- Kapitalistisches Wirtschaftssystem --- Gesellschaftsordnung --- Antikapitalismus --- Westen --- Der Westen --- Kapitalistische Staaten --- Industriestaaten --- Westmächte --- Nichtwestliche Welt --- Enzo Mingione. --- Fordist crisis. --- No poverty. --- Western capitalism. --- citizenship systems. --- financial capital. --- global capitalism. --- migratory flows. --- neoliberal transformation. --- new employment regimes. --- postwar capitalism. --- poverty. --- welfare policies.