The return of the diaspora – critical reaction on the periphery of the modern world system

The phenomenon of Romanian emigration is analyzed in this material from the perspective of the creative power of heroic culture (I. Bădescu) in relation to the period generically called transition, which can be understood in terms of a strong anomie (E. Durkheim). This period made it possible to create a societal fracture (R. Baltasiu) between elites and society. At the crossroads of these vectors, the phenomenon of Romanian emigration was born as an individual solution to get out of the national impasse that the entire country was going through. More than 30 years after the Revolution, despite all the predictions of an increasingly bleak future for the Romanians remaining in the country, a historical chance to reconquer the natural is glimpsed, through a phenomenon of the return to the country of those who had once left. It remains to be seen whether the return of the diaspora will be an economic phenomenon of recapturing local economic initiative in order to restore identity rent (academician T. Postolache) or will it re-enter the consumption logic of the modern world economic system (the same trap that initially “chased” them).