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Impact Of Rural Migration On Community Development
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Migration
is a universal phenomenon. It had been a daily routine from time
immemorial till this present time. Migration is the movement of
individual or group from one location to the other. Rural-migration is
the movement of individual group of people from one country–side to a
particular geographical rural /urban area (Della Summers 2000).
Previous
research as documented the devastating effect of out-migration on rural
communities. In this process, young highly skilled migrants leave rural
area that offer little opportunity, migrating to urban and suburban
areas. Their out migration leaves behind an older, less educated and low
skilled community that struggles to meet increased social-service needs
with shrinking tax base (Cushing, 2000). The migration pattern of the
poor, coupled with the out-migration of the non-poor, exacerbated
poverty rates in poor countries.
Nigeria’s concern and desire to do
something about rural urban migration stems from the unprecedented rapid
growth of the urban population which is believed to had result from the
rapid influx of migrants from rural areas. In–migrants are blamed for
swelling population for beyond the towns economic capacity thus,
creating urban problems such as unemployment successive Nigerian
government have planned and executed several projects ranging from farm
settlements in rural areas to development of new, smaller, satellite
towns to divert migration from the more crowded, large towns (Markiwa,
2004).
1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
Migration is an inevitable
phenomenon. It has negative and positive impact on both rural and urban
communities. The migrants from the rural communities posses lot of
problems on the urban communities. Most of these problems are:
i.
Congestion in population: Due to over concentration of people in a
particular area which create problem for the government to execute its
plan effectively for its residents or citizens of a particular area.
ii.
Poverty: Over concentration of migrants in a particular local area
without proper documentation or records from government can reduce the
standard of living of the people because there is increase in the
population against government plans.
iii. Crime: Migrants who
leave their homes hoping to get a good job in other communities ends up
being disappointed as a result of unemployment and at the end get
involve in one criminal activities or the other, in other to make ends
meet.
iv. Illiteracy: Migration is also a bane to educational
system. School age migrants who migrate to another community posed
problem to their education in the sense that the facilities might not be
able to accommodate more population of students–migrants who are
aspiring to further their educational carrier.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The world is now a global village with the invention of new technologies. However, the physical migration of people is still inevitable and it is necessary for rural community’s development. There are several reasons while people migrate, like economic reasons, ecological reasons, educational reasons etc. The purpose of the research work is to bring to the fore the “Impact of rural migration on community developmentâ€.Hypotheses were structure in a way to show the significant ... Continue reading---
