Causes of rural urban migration
- The wage-gap between the urban and rural areas. People move to towns in search for higher wage earning opportunities.
- Availability of jobs in towns. People move to towns with the hope of securing urban jobs.
- Availability of social amenities such as access to clean water, power supply, good schools, hospitals, recreational facilities etc. in urban centers attract people from rural areas to urban centers.
- High population pressure on land in rural areas which leads to land shortage. Therefore the land less are forced to move to urban areas to look for better opportunities.
- Political insecurity in rural areas. These include rebel activities, wars, cattle raids which push people from rural areas to towns.
- Social-cultural factors existing in rural areas like witchcraft, circumcision, forced marriages, genital mutilation etc. force those who are opposed to these cultures to seek for refugee urban areas.
- 7. Inappropriate education system which trains people for white collar jobs that are found in urban areas. In addition, students migrate from rural areas to urban centers in search for better educational opportunities.
- 8. Use of capital intensive production techniques in agriculture in rural areas for example use of tractors reduces the demand for labour in rural Therefore the surplus labour migrates to urban areas to look for jobs.
- Occurrence of natural calamities for example drought, pests and diseases, poor soils negatively
- High population growth rates in the rural area leads-to population explosion where population exceeds the available resources especially land. Those that cannot be accommodated by the limited rural resources migrate to urban areas in search of opportunities and economic survival.
CATEGORIES Economics
TAGS Dr. Bbosa Science
