Albanian society internationalization: challenges and new opportunities of albanian migration during integration to european union

Abstract

The fall of communism in Albania after 1990’s, bring out opportunities of forming relations with different countries 
of the world.  The end of communism and democratization process helps Albanian society to be open toward the 
different countries, especially to European ones. These connections and influences between the local and the 
global are quite new in Albanian history.  In countries of Eastern Europe, such as Albania, made these countries 
to form and have economical, political and cultural relationships with other Western countires. These 
relationships nad new cooporation make possible Albanian society to be familiar and internationalized in the 
world economy, politics adn other cultural processes. One of phenomena that helped Albanian to be 
internationalized was migration.  The acceptance of migration forms at Western and Eastern societies changed 
because of the emigrants flowed from Balkan countries, especially from Albania toward European countries.  At 
the beginning and some years after 1990’s the migration form was illegally. For this reason, European country 
applied different policies to migrations for acceptance or to cast out the emigrants. After the foundation of 
European Union, as all other policies the migration policies change too.  
In this paper will be analyses the recent forms of Albanian society internationalization in the world. Also will be 
analyses the recent Albanian migration and emigrant situation in Europe and their integration process in the 
European societies where they are living. Are the emigrants integrated and harmonizing with the European 
society or they are just trying to shape their life according to the social, economical and cultural conditions? Or let 
say that, are the emigrant assimilating their own identity just to be a social actor in the European societies? Will 
be providing an overview of policies of the European Integration toward migration and emigrants, to discuses and 
to analyses the process of Albanian society member toward ‘Europeanization’ and integration to the European 
Union societies. Also in this paper will be focused on the challenges and opportunities of Albanian 
internationalization and Albanian migration in the Western countries.