Romanian Worker in France
EUWorkers of Romanian workers in France has increased dramatically in the years following the country’s accession to the EU. Along with Germany and the UK, it has become one of the main destinations for physicians. Among medical physicians with a European degree, Romanians are the largest group working in France. The article explores why they come, what needs they fulfill and the extent to which their migration can be seen as part of the globalisation of healthcare.
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The first wave of migrant physicians to arrive in France was made up of doctors who had come for postgraduate training in French hospitals (a possibility that was introduced with the decrees of January and March 2000). These doctors, unlike the later migrants, paid into the French social security system and thus allowed their employers to hire them for less than local people would have been cost-effective, because they were not subsidized by the state.
Nevertheless, they were still perceived as ‘cheap’ and priced out the local workforce in Western Europe, exacerbating income inequality. The French President Macron has been pressing to impose new rules on ‘posted’ workers from Eastern European nations, requiring them to pay both their own and local employees the same amount. But this hasn’t won support from governments in central and eastern Europe.
For many Romanian workers in France, their remittances are used to cover daily expenses and provide for long-distance caregiving of elderly or ill family members back home. As such, these remittances are forms of intergenerational solidarity and a way to keep families together.