Iustinian Pintea interview - What's your name? - Iustinian Pintea. - How old are you? - I'm 20. - What grade are you in? - 12th grade. - I understand you've also been abroad with your family. Where exactly? - Grova. That's about 20 kms from Rome. My parents have left since 1998 and [...]
Diana Popovici interview - Hello! - Hello! - Would you agree to take part in a study about families split by contemporary migration? - Certainly. - What's your name? - My name is Popovici Ioana Diana and I'm 18 years old. - Glad to have you with us. Who migrated from your family? - [...]
Alexandra Gherasim-An interview - Hello. Would you agree to take part in a study about families split by contemporary migration? - Yes, I agree. - What's your name? - Gherasim Alexandra - And how old are you? - I'm 18.- Who left from your family? - My mother. - Since when? - Six years. - [...]
(5 construction site workers) Why they came? Every case is for sure different. Me, I was working in Poland and I wanted to change my way of life most of all. To have a possibility to earn more. In practical terms it made me to leave work and this is how I am here. Yes, [...]
(3 construction workers) Why did they arrive? It’s pure coincidence, meeting some people and going abroad. For example, one of my relatives left, he pulled in the next one and then one by one, each pulls in the next one. Well, I would disagree with you because I am not here by coincidence. My business [...]
Iliana (from Plovdiv) One summer I did not have any plans and I decided to work abroad. And that's what I did because my sister's mother in law was already there and I knew she could help me find a job. I stayed there for three months. It was the year of 2005, I arrived [...]
Siika Ivanova I left in 2009. Money problem, the usual reason. In Bulgaria we used to live in a village where life was hard, the transport was not well developed and the wages were low. The first thing I have noticed in Greece were the water barrels on top of all houses – that is [...]
Aunt Lety ( Violeta Moskova ) from Gorna Oryahovitza The year is 1998. NATO closes the middle sergeant schools and I am left unemployed. And in that time finding a job as a teacher became impossible. My older daughter was third year in college and I decided that is time for me to take the road to [...]
Viki used to live in Sofia, with her family – her husband and her 2 sons. She was working as a teacher in a primary school for 19 years, and her husband had a liquor store. Her and her family’s life was comfortable, until in 1989 there was an economic crisis in Bulgaria, and especially [...]
“…I left my children behind … They grew up without my presence only because I thought I could find a better future here in Greece… But most people in Bulgaria they made it. And I think I regret that I came here and left them alone. Because they ‘ve been through too much stuff…” “…At [...]
