The permeability of borders and the migration of specialists from
the Romanian health system after Romania’s integration into the EU changed
the relationship between emigrants and space, imprinting new meanings on
the integration and identity of immigrants. In the context of free movement,
individual identity, once belonging to a single country or society, has been
replaced by a dual or transnational, multiple model. The objective of our
research aims at the process of building a new identity, composite and
dynamic, by relating both to the culture of the country of origin and to the
destination society that requires compliance with a code of values and
behaviours. The analysis is based on a survey based on a questionnaire
conducted in 2020, on a sample of 87 Romanian doctors practicing in France.
Statistical and cartographic analysis of the survey data was performed using
statistical and cartographic programs Sphinx lexica and GIS. The results of the
research undertaken reveal that professional activity and the relational
network are factors that contribute decisively to a good integration in the
French society. The exercise of the profession represents the factor that
legitimizes the presence of Romanian doctors in the destination society and
contributes, equally, to the development of social practices, representations
and feelings of identity in close correlation with the complexity of migratory
trajectories.