| dc.description.abstract | This research paper aims at studying migration from rural to the urban areas with the main concern that by the year 2050, it's expected that 60% of total world population will reside in the urban areas. This is by all means a major transition from the 1950's where only 30% of the population resided in urban areas. The major concern here is whether developing economies will be prepared enough to cope with the socio-economic and political implication of this transition. This study aims at adding value to already existing literature on migration patterns by looking at other possible factors that may cause rural-urban migration like social ties and relationships among other traditional factors like age, sex, marital status, income expectations and family size.
This research,critically examines the effects of education on migration decision by analyzing data on level of education attained and found out that most of the migrants to the urban areas have attained no education at all while majority are only educated to primary level. The study also examines the socio-economic concepts which are attributed to rural-ufban migration such as mushrooming of slum dwellings, urban unemployment, crime, environmental degradation and other social vices like drug peddling.
This study aims at making policy recommendations based on the findings which can be of use to policy analysts as they try to cope with this phenomenon and found that the solution lies in creating employment in rural areas and controlling the expansion of urban informal sector. Finally, this study proposes areas that require further research such as the effect of technology in influencing future migration patterns from rural to urban areas.
Key words - Rural, urban and migration | en_US |
