Publications

Articles:

• Corman, Sorina and Alin Croitoru, 2023, Exploring Hidden Costs of Seasonal Migration in Agriculture within Roma Communities of Origin: Evidence from Romania, Societies, 13(11), 239; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13110239

• Croitoru Alin, Daniel Mara and Felicia Morândău, 2023, Who is attending training to comply with the expectations of the school management? A study among Romanian in-service teachers, European Journal of Teacher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2023.2265547.

• Croitoru Alin and Ionela Vlase, 2022, Stepwise migration: What drives the relocation of migrants upon return?, Population, Space and Place, 28 (2). DOI:10.1002/psp.2492.

• Șerban Monica and Alin Croitoru, 2022, The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to bring the migration of agricultural workers into focus through media coverage, Estudios Geográficos, 83(293). DOI: 10.3989/estgeogr.2022117.117.

• Nate Silviu, Daniel Mara, Alin Croitoru, Felicia Morândau, Andriy Stavytskyy, Ganna Kharlamova, 2022, The Interest Level Assessment in Attending Training Programs among Romanian Teachers: Econometric Approach, Sustainability, 14 (24): 16335.

• Croitoru Alin, 2021, Stimulating return migration to Romania: a multi-method study of returnees’ endorsement of entrepreneurship policies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 29 (2): 264-281. DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2020.1824896

• Croitoru Alin, 2021, Diaspora Start-up Programs and Creative Industries: Evidence from Romania, Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences. 63: 5-29.

• Croitoru Alin and Anatolie Coșciug, 2021. Two Facets of Returnees’ Entrepreneurship in Romania: Juxtaposing Business Owners and Self-Employed Return Migrants within a Multi-Method Research Framework. Calitatea Vieții, 32(2):175-194.

• Croitoru Alin and Horațiu Rusu, 2021. Bidding for Research Funds. Inter-Fields Differences and Predictors of the Evaluation Scores: Insights from a Romanian National Competition for Postdoctoral Grants. Journal of Research in Higher Education, 5(1): 123-140.

• Rusu Mihai Stelian and Alin Croitoru, 2021, Memorial Ambivalences in Postcommunist Romania: Generational Attitudes towards the Symbolic Legacy of Communism, Societies, 11(3), DOI: 10.3390/soc11030099.

• Croitoru Alin, 2020, Great Expectations: A Regional Study of Entrepreneurship among Romanian Return Migrants, SAGE Open, 10(2): 1–18, DOI: 10.1177/2158244020921149

• Molinero-Gerbeau Yoan, Monica Șerban and Alin Croitoru, 2020, Introduction to the Special Issue. Migration, food and agriculture: Insights into what we eat and how our food is produced at the beginning of the third millennium, Social Change Review, 18 (1): 1-12.

• Vlase Ionela and Alin Croitoru, 2019, Nesting self-employment in education, work and family trajectories of Romanian migrant returnees, Current Sociology, 67 (5): 778-797, DOI: 10.1177/0011392119842205.

• Croitoru Alin, 2019, Predictors of Self-Employment upon Return Migration: A Study among Young Returnees from Latvia, Romania, and Slovakia, Journal of Social Research & Policy, 10 (1): 37-53.

• Croitoru Alin, 2019, No Entrepreneurship without Opportunity: The Intersection of Return Migration Research and Entrepreneurship Literature, Social Change Review, 17(1-2): 33-60.

• Croitoru Alin and Flavius Mihalache, 2018, Fostering Rural Transformation in Romania: Entrepreneurship, Land Reform and Institutional Changes, Journal of Community Positive Practices, XVIII (1): 3-17.

• Șerban Monica and Alin Croitoru, 2018, Do Return Migration Policies Matter? A typology of young Romanian returnees’ attitudes towards return policies, Social Change Review, Vol. 16(1-2): 9-34.

• Croitoru Alin, 2017, Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, 1939, Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process, Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 8 (1): 67-80.

• Croitoru Alin, Horatiu Rusu, Mihai Stelian Rusu, 2015, Tailoring a Fashionable Self: Sartorial Practices in an Emerging Market Context, Social Change Review, 13 (2): 137-158.

• Mihalache Flavius and Croitoru, Alin, 2015, Măsuri de dezvoltare rurală în Polonia și Ungaria, Sociologie românească, 13 (4): 19-35.

• Croitoru Alin, 2014, First trip abroad: expectations, experiences and stories of transnational Romanians, Social Change Review, 12 (1): 43-71.

• Mihalache Flavius and Croitoru Alin, 2014, Organizarea teritorială a spațiului rural în contextul reformei administrative, Revista Transilvană de Științe Administrative, 35 (4): 53-70.

• Croitoru Alin, 2013, Digging among the roots of entrepreneurship, Journal of Community Positive Practices, 13 (1): 92-111.

• Croitoru Alin, 2013, An Insight into the Nature of the Relationship between Entrepreneurship and International Migration, Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 4 (1): 147-153.

Books:

• Croitoru Alin și Alexandru Iorga, 2022, Dezvoltare comunitară în România: concepte, procese, modele de analiză, București: Tritonic.

• Rusu Mihai Stelian și Alin Croitoru, 2022, Politici ale memoriei în România postsocialistă: atitudini sociale față de redenumirea străzilor și înlăturarea statuilor, Iași: Institutul European.

• Croitoru Alin, 2019, Antreprenoriat și migrație de revenire în România, București: Editura Pro Universitaria.

• Croitoru Alin, 2016, Antreprenoriatul în migrația românească, București: Tritonic și ebook Sibiu: Editura Universității Lucian Blaga din Sibiu.

• Mihalache Flavius și Croitoru Alin, 2011, Mediul rural românesc: evoluţii şi involuţii. Schimbare socială şi antreprenoriat, București: Editura Expert.

Chapters in collective volumes:

• Voicu Bogdan and Alin Croitoru, 2023, Between Integration and Dissociation: Intra-European Immigrants’ Life Experiences in Romania. in Barbulescu, R., Goodman, S.W., Pedroza, L. (eds), Revising the Integration-Citizenship Nexus in Europe: Sites, Policies, and Bureaucracies of Belonging. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 

• Rusu, Mihai S. și Croitoru, Alin. (2023). „Ambivalențe memoriale în România postsocialistă: atitudini generaționale față de moștenirea simbolică a socialismului”. În Cristina Petrescu și Dragoș Petrescu (Coord.). Comunismul în România. O sută de ani de controverse, (pp. 137- 167). București: Pro Universitaria.

• Croitoru Alin, 2022, Migraţie, navetism şi antreprenoriat în mediul rural românesc-argumente pentru o analiză integratoare, in Croitoru A. și A. Iorga (coord). Dezvoltare comunitară în România: concepte, procese, modele de analiză, București: Tritonic.

• Croitoru Alin și Alexandru Iorga, 2022, Dezvoltarea comunitară: argument pentru o perspectivă integratoare, in Croitoru A. și A. Iorga (coord). Dezvoltare comunitară în România: concepte, procese, modele de analiză, București: Tritonic.

• Croitoru Alin, 2021, Imigrație și antreprenoriat în România, in Coșciug A. (coord.) Migrație și integrare într-o țară de emigrare, Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană.

• Croitoru Alin, 2018, Gendered migratory pathways: Exploring the Work trajectories of long-term Romanian migrants, in Vlase I. and B. Voicu (eds.), Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe: A Life Course Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan.

• Croitoru, Alin, 2018, Despre natura relaţiei dintre migraţie şi antreprenoriat, in L. Papadima, M. Aniței, D. Zaharia (coord.),  Studii în științele socio-umane, București: Editura Universității din București.

• Croitoru, Alin, 2018, O perspectivă regională asupra relaţiei dintre dezindustrializare şi antreprenoriat, in L. Papadima, M. Aniței, D. Zaharia (coord.), Studii în științele socio-umane, București: Editura Universității din București.

• Croitoru, Alin și Dumitrescu, Lucian, 2018, Spiritualitatea rurală românească şi incompatibilitatea ei cu regimul comunist, in L. Papadima, M. Aniței, D. Zaharia (coord.),  Studii în științele socio-umane, București: Editura Universității din București.

• Croitoru Alin, 2017, Der rumänische ländliche Raum und die Falle der Saisonmigration, in Martin Rosswog Kolchoz und Bauernhof – Ländliches Leben und Arbeiten in Europa, LVR – Freilichtmuseum Kommern, München.

• Croitoru Alin, 2015, Studiul sociologic al antreprenoriatului, in Bogdan Voicu, Horațiu Rusu and Adela Popa (eds.), Este Romania altfel? Societatea si sociologia... încotro?, București: Tritonic și ebook Sibiu: Editura Universității Lucian Blaga din Sibiu.

Book reviews:

• Croitoru Alin. 2021. Soviet Signoras. Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration, Europe-Asia Studies, 73(4): 776-778.

• Croitoru Alin, 2020, Transnational Return and Social Change: Hierarchies, Identities and Ideas, edited by Anghel, Remus Gabriel, Margit Fauser and Paolo Boccagni, 2019, London, Anthem Press, European Societies, 22(4): 525-527.

• Croitoru Alin, 2019, Inside the East European Planned Economy. State Planning, Factory and Manager, London & New York, NY: Routledge, Europe Asia Studies, 71(10): 1761-1763.

• Croitoru Alin, 2017, Migrant Friendships in a Super-Diverse City. Russian-Speakers and their Social Relationships in London in the 21st Century. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, Europe Asia Studies, 69(7): 1133-1135.

• Croitoru Alin, 2016, Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities. What the Eye Cannot See. Basingstoke & New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, Europe Asia Studies, 68(9): 1612-1614.

• Croitoru Alin, 2015, Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors. Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy. Budapest & New York, NY: Central European University Press, Europe Asia Studies, 67(7): 1151-1152.

• Croitoru Alin, 2014, 2013, The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, Routledge: New York, Social Change Review, 12(2): 213-222.

• Croitoru Alin, 2014, Mircea Vulcănescu, an Intellectual Portrait: Philosophy, Sociology and Geopolitics in Interwar Romania, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca, Sociologie Românească 12(4): 96-99.

• Croitoru Alin, 2012, The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest and the Business Cycle, New Brunswick (U.S.A): Transaction Publishers, Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 3(2): 137-148.

• Croitoru Alin, 2012, Fericirea în contextul social al tranziţiei postcomuniste din România, Oradea, Editura Universității din Oradea, Sociologie Românească, 10(1): 148 – 151.

• Croitoru Alin, 2012, Şanse de acces la educaţie în societatea românească actuală, Iaşi, Lumen Publishing House, Calitatea Vieții, 23(4): 361–364.

• Croitoru Alin, 2011, Homo Oeconomicus Adaptivus, Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 2(2): 147-153.

• Croitoru Alin, 2011, Stiluri de viaţă în România Postcomunistă, Iași: Editura Lumen,  House, Calitatea Vieții, 23(2): 219-222.

• Croitoru Alin, 2011, The mineriads: between political manipulation and workers’ solidarity, București, Curtea Veche, Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 2(1): 229-233.

Papers presented in international conferences and academic events (selection):

• Șerban Monica și Alin Croitoru, 2023, Seasonal Migration in Agriculture Amidst Intra-European Romanians’ Mobility, Views from the fields: case-studies of migrant workers experiences in the European Agriculture, 15 November 2023, SafeHabitus Webinar.

• Rusu Horațiu and Alin Croitoru, 2023, The path to transnational solidarity: acts and attitudes of solidarity for Ukrainian refugees in Romania, Debordering Europe through the EU Temporary Protection Directive, 16-17th November 2023, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

• Vlase Ionela and Alin Croitoru, 2023, Explaining (Un)welcoming Attitudes towards Festivals of Minorities: Evidence from Central Romania, REVISITING CULTURAL HERITAGE: Novel Approaches, Innovative Methods, and Transnational Connections, 26–27 October 2023, Sibiu, Romania.

• Rusu Horațiu and Alin Croitoru, 2023, Romanians’ attitudes and acts of solidarity towards Ukrainian refugees, MIGRATION DIALOGUES. ENGAGING RESEARCH, POLICY AND CIVIL SOCIETY  The 4th conference of the Romanian Network of Migration Studies (RoMig), 7-8 September 2023 SNSPA, Bucharest, Romania.

• Șerban Monica și Alin Croitoru, 2023, The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to bring the migration of agricultural workers into focus through media coverage,  Migration, Land Use and Ecological Crises in Europe’s Peripheries  13-16 September 2023, Hosman, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin și Ionela Vlase, 2023, Reintegration into labour market upon return migration. The Case of Romanians who worked abroad in agriculture,  Migration, Land Use and Ecological Crises in Europe’s Peripheries,  13-16 September 2023, Hosman, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin, 2023, Return migration and entrepreneurship in Romania, Seminarios de investigación y jornadas de doctorado, Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones, June 12-16, Comillas Univeristy, Madrid, Spain.

• Corman Sorina, Alin Croitoru and Ștefan Tobler, 2023, Roma migration abroad, resource or problem for the welfare of Roma communities, 9th Conference for Research in Diakonia and Christian Social Practice, 31 May – 2 June, Oslo, Norway.

• Rusu Horațiu and Alin Croitoru, 2023, Romanians’ solidarity towards the Ukrainian refugees: from individuals' pro-Ukrainian attitudes to acts of solidarity, ESA RN35 Sociology of Migration Midterm Conference Departures, arrivals, border-crossings: changing migrations in times of crises. March 30-31, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.

• Rusu Horațiu and Alin Croitoru, 2022, Romanians’ solidarity towards the Ukrainian refugees. The way from individuals' pro-Ukrainian attitudes to acts of solidarity, Midterm Conference of ESA RN36: Sociological Knowledge and Social Transformations in Global Crises, September 2-3, 2022, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Moroșanu Laura, Alin Croitoru and Monica Șerban, 2021, "Then" and "now": Romanian returnees contemplating remigration, 2nd Mirnet Conference “New Dynamics of East–West Migration and Migrant Integration Within Europe and Beyond”, 15-16/11/2021, Sussex, United Kingdom.

• Rusu Mihai Stelian and Alin Croitoru, 2021, Transforming Namescapes: Street Renaming during Romania’s Postsocialist period, 15th European Sociological Association Conference, 31 August – 3 September, Barcelona, Spain.

• Moroșanu Laura, Alin Croitoru and Monica Șerban, 2021, "Then" and "now": Romanian returnees contemplating remigration, 15th European Sociological Association Conference, Barcelona 31 August – 3 September, Barcelona, Spain.

• Voicu Bogdan and Alin Croitoru, 2021, Between Integration and Dissociation: Life Experiences of intra-European Movers in Romania, 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, July 7 - 9, Luxembourg

• Morosanu Laura, Alin Croitoru and Monica Serban, 2021, "Then" and "now": Romanian returnees contemplating remigration, 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference - Luxembourg, July 7 - 9, 2021.

• Croitoru Alin and Anatolie Coșciug, 2021, Small-Scale Entrepreneurship Among Return Migrants in Romania, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Congress Šibenik, March 9-14. Croatia.

• Croitoru Alin, 2019, A Turntable Towards Entrepreneurship? Examining the Influence of Migration upon Romanian Returnees’ Entrepreneurial Practices, 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom.

• Croitoru Alin, 2019, Returnees’ Innovative Skills and Knowledge. A case study on Romanian Academic Researchers, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies – BASEES Annual Conference,  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

• Croitoru Alin, 2018, Exploring Entrepreneurial Orientation of Young Romanian Researchers, Crossing Boundaries: Economic Sociology and its Intersections, ESA Economic Sociology Midterm Conference in cooperation with the Section “Economic Sociology” of the German Sociology Association, Konstanz, Germany.

• Vlase Ionela and Alin Croitoru, 2018, Nesting Self-Employment in Long-Term Migrants' Work and Family Trajectories,  The Migration Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Croitoru Alin, 2018, Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship: Two different lenses for looking at the Romanian immigrants’ entrepreneurial behaviour, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

• Croitoru Alin, 2018, Gendered Migratory Pathways: Exploring the Work Trajectories of Long-Term Romanian Migrants, British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference 2018, Newcastle, United Kingdom.

• Croitoru Alin, 2017, Work experiences and attitudes towards work of long-term Romanian migrants, (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities - 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens, Greece.

• Toth Georgiana, Croitoru Alin, and Șerban Monica, 2017, Acquiring human capital through international migration. The case of young Romanian returnees, (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities - 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens, Greece.

• Manea Mădălina, Deliu Alexandra, Croitoru Alin, 2017, Romanian youth migration – opportunity structure and life strategies. A case study. 4th International Seminar on Migrations, Agriculture and Food Sustainability: Dynamics, Challenges and Perspectives in the Global Context, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

• Croitoru Alin, Toth Georgiana, and Șerban Monica, 2017, Individual outcomes for youth Romanian migrants in agriculture, 4th International Seminar on Migrations, Agriculture and Food Sustainability: Dynamics, Challenges and Perspectives in the Global Context, CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

• Croitoru Alin, 2017, Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship: two different lenses for looking at the Romanian immigrants’ entrepreneurial behaviour, WZB – Berlin Social Science Centre, International conference - Household and Resilience in Times of Crisis, Berlin, Germany.

• Croitoru Alin, 2016, Romanian entrepreneurial behaviours abroad: how important is the destination? Squaring the Circle: Integrating Theories and Empirical Analyses in Economic Sociology, ESA - RN Economic Sociology, Madrid, Spain.

• Rusu Horațiu and Croitoru Alin, 2016, International migration and attitudes towards intergenerational solidarity, Social transformations: new challenges, practices and critique, ESA - RN 36, Sibiu, Romania.

• Rusu Horațiu and Croitoru Alin, 2016, Attitudes toward intergenerational solidarity in Romania: does migration experience matter?, Social sciences and the contemporary challenges – 20 years of teaching sociology at the University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania.

• Șerban Monica and Croitoru Alin, 2015, Building a system to manage the outflow of contract migrant workers in the case of Romania, International Workshop: Migrant workers in the agriculture sector. Trajectories, circularity and rights. A comparative perspective.  Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.

• Croitoru Alin, 2015, First trip abroad: expectations, experiences and stories of transnational Romanians, 12th the Conference of European Sociological Association, Prague, Czech Republic.

• Muntean Aurelian and Croitoru Alin, 2015, The Effect of Individualized Campaigning and Electoral Constraints on Parliamentary Voting Dissent, International Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies. Bucharest, Romania.

• Tudor Elena and Croitoru Alin, 2015, Exploring Romanian migrants’ transnationalism, Quality of Life. A Challenge for Social Policy, International Conference of the Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin and Mihalache Flavius, 2015, Challenges of rural development in Romania, Quality of Life. A Challenge for Social Policy, International Conference of the Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin, 2014, Experiencing other countries through labour - the case of Romanian migrants, Anthropology and Work, Francisc Rainer Institute of the Romanian Academy, Sibiu, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin and Mihalache Flavius, 2013, How to better understand social and economic disparities inside Romania using sociological tools, Towards the Good Society - European Perspectives, Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin, 2013, An Insight into the Nature of the Relationship between Entrepreneurship and International Migration, European Sociological Association (ESA) 11th Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change, Research Network: Economic Sociology - Work transformation, Torino, Italy.

• Croitoru Alin, 2013, On Entrepreneurship and Migration in the case of Romanians immigrants living in Austria, The Conference of Research in Sociology and Social Work, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin, 2012, Some effects of the Law of disadvantaged zones on the regional profiles of entrepreneurship, European Sociology: New Challenges and Opportunities, Oradea, Romania.

• Croitoru Alin, 2010, Elements of social stratification in Anton Golopentia’s research, Remaking the Social – New Risks and Solidarities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.