Introduction M igration, AIDS epidemics, and urban food security, interact in complex ways that are little researched and understood in the Southern and Eastern African context. To date, research on urban food security has been concerned with urban systems of acquisition and production, with an emphasis on the informal sector and more recently on urban agriculture. Much less attention has been ...

Since the 1970s, in-migration has driven a growing human presence and dramatic changes in the physical landscape of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon frontier, including massive deforestation. Over time, a second phenomenon has emerged with the children of the original migrants often leaving the settler farms of their parents to set out on their own. The vast majority stay in the Amazon region, so...

Due to multiple-factors, bracketed popularly in ‘push-pull’ category, migration, both internal and external, is taking place in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, the dominant form of migration is from rural to urban centers. For, Bangladesh is predominantly an agrian rural society for 80.0 percent of the total population lives in 87319 villages. The urban centers of Bangladesh are developing rapidly a...

This paper investigates the migration behavior of rural-urban migrants within Vietnam. It focuses on the length and intensity of migration and its respective determinants. The analysis uses panel data of 2200 rural households and data from a migrant tracking survey of 299 migrants from Vietnam. The findings show that migrants coming from rural households that faced a higher number of idiosyncra...

This article examines rural-urban migration, its role in poverty alleviation in Thailand, and policy implications. The empirical research literature suggests that the poorest tend be left behind by wealthier migrants moving to urban areas. The youngest tend to migrate. The impact of remittances tends to appear more positive in international migration, but the impact of remittances among rura...

This article analyzes rural-urban migration in Great Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Using a new dataset of 28,000 individuals matched between the 1851 and 1881 population censuses, I examine the selection process and treatment effect of migration, controlling for the endogeneity of the migration decision. I find that urban migrants were positively selected—the best of the...

extended abstract 1. introduction immigration plays an important role in reducing poverty and vulnerability in low- income families. people for various reasons, specifically, economic, social, cultural, environmental, and natural disasters leave their native land. so far in our country, people often have migrated from rural areas to cities. in recent years, however, we are witnessing the revers...

this study was conducted to reveal the impact of rural-urban migration on broiler production in the niger delta region of nigeria. data were collected from 795 household heads and farmers/managers/supervisors of 25 selected broiler farms in the study area. descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis was utilized to analyze the data. able bodied young men constituted most of the rura...

In much of the Amazon Basin, approximately 70% of the population lives in urban areas and urbanward migration continues. Based on data collected over more than a decade in two long-settled regions of Amazonia, we find that rural–urban migration in the region is an extended and complex process. Like recent rural–urban migrants worldwide, Amazonian migrants, although they may be counted as urban ...

Mass rural-urban migration and population aging are occurring simultaneously at a rapid speed in contemporary China. Tens of millions of rural young laborers have been migrating to urban areas to meet the demand for cheap labor, whereas large numbers of elderly parents (the Chinese baby boomers) are left behind in the impoverished villages. Consequently, adult children are becoming more and mor...