Browsing by Author "Ion, Oana Andreea"

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Assessing labour migration policies from the incorporation perspective : the case of Romania
(2024) Florian, Bogdan; Ion, Oana Andreea; Mocanu, Mircea
Migrants play an important role in shaping today’s EU, both in terms of the labour market, and society as a whole. The analyses of the migration policies, including the labour sector, are generally focused on the control and, respectively, on the security dimension, while a third branch includes the researches on the broader term of incorporation of migrants into the fabric of the host societies. This paper starts from the questions “why does the EU labour market need migrants?” and “what role can migrants play in community development?”, and it argues that using an incorporation approach in public policies concerning migrants could provide a theoretical and actional solution to overcome challenges posed by various other policy and political positions aimed against migrants. An assessment of labour-connected incorporation policies and practices is presented as a study case, using evidence-based policies and practices from Romania. The main findings of the paper indicate that there is a huge gap between stated aims of written strategies, actions being implemented and the perception of intended target groups. The article argues that this deviation is due, at least in the case of Romania, to a weak administrative capacity to manage migrant flows and the challenges they bring to traditional and rigid legal and administrative systems. The gap is also due to poor operationalisation of the concept of incorporation in policy practice, with contradictory simultaneously policy narratives of adaptation, assimilation, inclusion, or integration, and without a clear goal that should shape a national labour migration policy.
Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting : a voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts
(Servizo de Publicacións, Universidade da Coruna, 2023) Ion, Oana Andreea
The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there aresituations when not even the institutions, as rational actors, can avoid a collective irrational outcome even when they are addressing subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist explanatory framework focusing on the insufficiently developed level of credible institutional commitments. The core part of the article consists in investigating several types of EU Council internal decision-making options, proposing how they can be designed to be considered in the same time fair and efficient, and in analysing how close this voting power ideal type configuration is to the current decisional system.
Migration narratives : from integration to incorporation
(Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, 2023) Ion, Oana Andreea
This article delimitates from the narratives depicting migration – especially under its irregular form – and migrants as a „problem” to be solved; instead, it focuses on the need to integrate migrants and on assessing their input in the overall development of today’s Union, conceived both as an impressive labour market and as a supranational society. It is emphasized the analytical confusion caused by the multitude of terms and positions regarding the ideal- type relations imagined in the literature between migrants and host societies, and it proposes surmounting the paradigmatic incommensurability by gathering these various approaches under the umbrella of the concept of incorporation that will prove useful for providing a unitary framework for conducting fruitful debates and analysis about how to better integrate migrants and strengthen their role in their new communities.
Regulation and certification of (bio)medical engineers : a case study on Romania
(MDPI, 2022) Miculescu, Marian; Ion, Oana Andreea
This paper analyzes the Romanian biomedical engineering educational path and certification process in European and international contexts and emphasizes the existence of a deficient operationalization of this qualification and profession, arguing that the domestic shortcomings are both a consequence of an unquestioned process of adopting European and even international classification schemes, and of insufficiently developed national administrative capabilities to properly implement the aforementioned classification frameworks. The core part of the article investigates the current academic track of the biomedical engineering specialization and scrutinizes the classification of occupations at different jurisdictional levels. The conclusions of the study indicate that one of the possible solutions for improving this unsatisfying status quo comes from a better communication between the national and European levels, and by their pro-active involvement in the international attempts of reviewing and refining the existing frameworks. The article ends with several recommendations and policy proposals meant to strengthen the role of various profession-certifying European documents, as well as to alleviate the regulatory deficiencies that this specialization has at Romanian level, in order to maximize its potential in the labor market.
Romania’s capacity to plan and implement a sustainable development strategy
(Springer, 2021) Ion, Oana Andreea; Done, Cătălin-Gabriel
The transformations within the Romanian national sustainable development strategies are a part of the European agenda being a relevant subject of Europeanization. This chapter uses qualitative methodology to explore the consequences of implementing NSDSs in three areas – rural development, human capital, and social disparities. Using a top-down approach, we will offer an integrated model to the Europeanization of Romanian public policies, analyzing government actors’ capacity to implement sustainable development strategies while adapting to international development principles. Simultaneously, the three areas of analysis are incredibly relevant, as they can provide an integrated understanding of the issues Romania has faced in the last 30 years. Rural development, human capital, and social divisions are critical elements of public policies and significant interest factors to the European Union and the UN