extended abstractintroductionone of the basic challenges of governments, especially in developing countries, is to organize the desired national spatial structure in the changing urbanization. such a structure allows us to divide economic and social functions in the urban and regional hierarchy in a balanced manner. in most provinces and territories of iran, the urban hierarchy has formed compl...

Two-fifths of the 279 million children in China are directly affected by the on-going massive internal migration. Using data from a nationally representative survey covering junior high school students in both rural and urban areas, we examine the causal impacts of different migration processes (parental migration, child migration, and hukou conversion) on rural children’s wellbeing measured by...

The paper explores the impact of rural-to-urban migration on the social mobility of individuals, comparing rural-to-urban migrants with rural and urban natives. Using life history data from the 1983 Korean National Migration Survey, the authors examined the pattern of migrant adjustment by estimating the 1st difference form of the autoregressive equation. They found a disruptive effect of...

Migration is a concept as old human history. Large-scale migrations have occurred in every period of There are many economic, social, political and legal reasons behind migration movements. It known that economic the most determining factors occurrence migration. Generally, direction from rural to urban, underdeveloped regions developed regions, east west Turkey. Population largely concentrated...

Scholars are increasingly rethinking the urban, rural, and urban–rural binary. This article advances understanding of rural urban imaginaries through examining how young people in a village north India develop practices that they regard as “urban” to protect futures. Young adults (aged eighteen thirty) Bemni, Uttarakhand, urban-style educational facilities agricultural well performances gender ...

This paper provides a history of the early contributions to the scientific study of migration. We begin with Ravenstein (1880s) and also feature the work of D.S. Thomas (1930s). Moreover, the development of the gravity model as applied to migration research (1930s and 1940s) is discussed. We discuss the historical reasons for interest in various migration phenomena, and we briefly treat the dev...

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...

Settlement is a unit of space built up by man to live and where to find a living Settlement serves man in a number of areas, it is a defense against external and natural intruders, it is also a place of social and cultural interactions among people who live together for business and development [1]. Settlements have evolved in their different shapes, pattern and population based on the level of...