BOOK REVIEW: István Polgar, Ioan Horga, Mircea Brie (eds.), ‟Migration and European Integration of Minorities”, Saarbrücken, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 376 pp.

Abstract

In the article The phenomenon of migration and integration of minorities in the European Union, Polgar Istvan brings into discussion the issues of demography and migration, bringing together other issues related to the place of origin and receiving places of potential immigrants, integration of minorities in the areal of EU, considering as a solution for the contemporary times the concept of Europe without borders. After the dissapearance of multinational empires such as Tsarist Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire, the pattern for the national states was imposed. But the directing lines of national states were not drawn accordingly, and a lot of minorities emerged between national boundaries of states in Europe and this small groups posed problems leading to internal frontiers defined by professor Marga as separating different parties with their values, really separatory dividing lines. After pointing out the failure of communism with the failure of its egalitarism, the model of European Union emerged as the only viable pattern for the future of European states and the idea of free movement of citizens on the territory of the union gained consistance.