Determinants of the Migration Tendency of Young People in Khuzestan Province With an Emphasis on Industrial Development
Subject Areas : تخصصی
reza rostami sarchegha
1
,
shahla kazemipuor
2
,
mahmoud moshfegh
3
1 - PhD student in Demography, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran
3 - Associate Professor of Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University
Keywords: Immigration, Emigration, Economic-Industrial Factors, Industrial Development, Social-Individual Factors,
Abstract :
Population migration and migration is an indicator of human dynamism and effort, and along with mortality and fertility, it is one of the three factors affecting the growth of human populations. This research has been conducted with the aim of investigating the determinants of migration in Khuzestan province with an emphasis on industrial development, and in this regard, it has determined the status and manner of migration in the industrial province of Khuzestan. The statistical population studied in the research includes immigrants and non-immigrants of Khuzestan province based on census data and a two percent sample in 2015. The nature of this research is quantitative and retrospective, and its analysis method is secondary and descriptive analysis. The results of this research indicate that the net migration rate of all the cities of Khuzestan province, except for one city (Bavi), is negative. The immigration destination of nearly 44% of immigrants is Khuzestan province and about 56% of immigrants have migrated to other provinces of the country. Also, Abadan city is the most immigrant city of this province. In the following, the most important immigration destinations of immigrants from Khuzestan province are Isfahan, Tehran and Alborz respectively. The most important factors influencing the emigration of Khuzestan province have been the economic-industrial factors, unemployment, and among the social factors, the youth variable of the population. The relationship between the independent variables with the possibility of migration whether urban or rural, city of residence, type of household, relationship with the head of the household, gender, age, marital status, type of activity, educational qualification and having or not having children with the probability of sending a migrant from Khuzestan province is significant