Abstract:

The migration-development relationship has been a permanent focus of scientific research and has been analyzed from different perspectives. The economic migration is constantly fueled by income and wealth differences between origin and destination countries. The analysis implies a cost-benefit study for the country that exports work force. The impact of work migration on the country of origin appears at macro, meso and micro-level. Our study is concentrated on the influence of the „3R”s of migration on the relationship between migration and development. Recruitment, the first „R”, can lead to some risks in the country of origin because the immigration policies of selective type promoted by immigration countries influence the structure of the migration flows. The remittances, the second „R”, can have a positive impact and act as incentives for growth but my also increase in the dependence on the sources of income from abroad. The third “R”, the return migration, illustrates how migrants who have returned to their home country may or may not contribute to development and launches the myth of individual contribution to modernism.