introduction information and communication technology (ict) is now one of the criteria for measuring the economic and industrial development, in a way that it has had significant effects on different aspects of socio-cultural, economic and political life of people and human communities. in this study, the authors have tried to investigate the economic, social and physical effects of ict centers...

OBJECTIVES This formative study is intended to generate questions and hypotheses regarding the relationship between health and outmigration from Alaska's rural communities. This study is the first to provide perspectives of rural Alaskans in the context of health concerns and health care delivery as determinants of outmigration. STUDY DESIGN The study collected secondary data through a compre...

BACKGROUND Millions of people move from rural areas to urban areas in China to pursue new opportunities while leaving their spouses and children at rural homes. Little is known about the impact of migration-related separation on mental health of these rural migrants in urban China. METHODS Survey data from a random sample of rural-to-urban migrants (n = 1113, aged 18-45) from Wuhan were analy...

In vast markets of developing economies, especially in South Asia, both seasonal rural migrants and threatened urban workers constitute a bulk of the new class of working poor and are truly marginal in terms of their socio-economic status. We argue that gift-giving and gift exchanges in labour markets can perpetuate both rural and urban poverty among the working poor. In the context of working ...

The goal of the present study is to explore the circumstances in Thailand under which the migration of rural adult children to urban areas takes place, with attention to how parents and their situation influence these decisions, and the consequences for the social and economic well-being of parents who remain behind in the rural areas after the children leave. The analysis relies primarily on 2...

Gender is increasingly recognized as fundamental to understanding migration processes, causes and consequences. In South Africa, it is intrinsic to the social transformations fueling high levels of internal migration and complex forms of mobility. While female migration in Africa has often been characterized as less prevalent than male migration, and primarily related to marriage, in South Afri...

BACKGROUND Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and may increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes than rural nonmigrants, that migrants would have an intermediate prevalence of obesity and diabetes compared with life-long urban and rural dwellers, and that longer ti...

The article is devoted to the analysis of migration nature and specifics as a socio-economic phenomenon in context current state prospects development agrarian economy Russian Federation conditions new social reality. research objectives: international rules for policy implementation food crises; assessment rural labor Federation; determination regional development. authors reveal contradiction...

This paper deals with the rural-urban migration of families in the last decades of the 19 century in one of the most developed regions of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy – the Pilsen region. The analysis indicates that the household head’s expected real rural-urban wage gap was not the main factor behind migration. Instead, the observed behavior is consistent with families maximizing a dynastic u...