Remains of communism: an autoethnographic study of a Romanian-Canadian girl

People migrate every single day and have been doing so since the beginning of the humankind. It is not something new, nor something out of the ordinary. That being said, all stories of migration are different depending on the push and pull factors of both the country of origin and the country of migration. Through this paper, I want to acknowledge my story and how it is different. I was born in post-communist Romania to a family that had lived their entire life in a wildly aggressive communist regime. I grew up in Romania in what was called a "democracy" at the time. My growing up however, was not democratic at all. Communism in Romania had never quite dissipated. While there is a sense that communism fell nearly overnight, in truth, the system was not so quickly dismantled. As a result, my entire childhood was influenced by the remains of communism.