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Are Moldovan emigrants diaspora or Not? (Author: Mark Mazureanu)

           Modovan government started paying a special attention to Moldovan extraterritorial communities residing abroad since when the economic statistics showed that about 30% of the national GDP is pumped in Moldova from abroad and since emigrants proved a high electoral commitment during the national elections. Since then the Government developed a special branch called BRD (Bureau of Cooperation with Diaspora) in this manner defining the extraterritorial communities residing abroad as diasporic.            In this post I will try to challenge what government defines as Moldovan diaspora abroad since this community by far does not qualify to this all catchy term of “diaspora”. I will show that Moldovan communities abroad can be rather attributed to short-term migration or trans-migrants assuming a different political functions/attributes these types of communities retain. For proving my point I will need to conce...
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Extraterritorial Voting as a Form of Emigrants’ Political Participation (Author: Mark Mazureanu)

In this post I will try to answer the question whether the emigrants constitute a powerful mechanism to exercise political pressure on the domestic elites to bring institutional reforms and political representation home considering the emigrants right to take part in domestic elections . The emigrants's non-electoral power is discussed in the previous post . I will answer the raised question by resuming the predominant scholarly arguments based on individual observations or large and small N analyzes. This material can be used to understand to which extent Moldova emigration has the possibility to influence the political process home, considering their rights to take part in elections. Research on extraterritorial voting is still scarce considering that historically only few states granted their emigrants the right to vote while abroad (Barry, 2006; Rubio-Marin, 2006; Tager, 2006; Waldrauch, 2003). Yet, in the last decade, states have increasingly created frameworks for dua...
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Profanarea simbolicii UE sau nu?

Profanarea simbolicii UE sau nu? Recent trecând prin preajma sediul Partidului Democrat am auzit o fîlfîitură care mi-a atras atenția. Mi-am îndreptat vederea - erau drapelele Moldovei arborate deolaltă cu cele ale Uniunii Europene. Trebuie să recunoaștem ele se privesc perfect pe fundalul signel PDM. Trandafiri roșii pe fon albastru combinate cu drapelul albastru UE este o asortare cu adevărat perfectă de culori care inspiră încredere și pace. Aici însă ne oprim, precum fiecare istorie conține și un DAR. Precum a zis bine cineva, totul ce este mentionat pînă la dar este doar umplutură de aceia vom trece la partea de după DAR. Fără mari tertipuri legale știm că folosirea simbolicii unor anumitor entități politice presupune împărtășirea valorilor acestor instituții. Mai mult ca atît răspîndirea acestor valori prin arborarea simbolicii vine la pachet cu anumite responsabilități morale față de instituția a căror simbolică o arborăm. Pe de altă parte, autodeclararea de a ...
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