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Effects Of Migration In Nigeria

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CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW Various literature have been concerned with modeling the effects of migration on productivity in both developed and developing countries with most relating to the socio economic impact of migration on rural areas within these countries including Nigeria. There has been a shortage of research on rural-urban migration and its effect on agricultural productivity in Nigeria. Although there’s quite a lack of literature on rural-urban migration and agricultural productivity in Nigeria some authors have made reference to it because migration from the rural areas greatly concerns Nigeria’s food supply as most of her food is gotten from the rural areas. This chapter is concerned with the conceptual definitions of basic …show more content…

(UNICEF 2012) this causes cities to be overpopulated and areas in those cities to quickly develop though depopulating the rural areas causing the able bodied youths to move from the villages to the cities. Fundamental to the understanding of rural-urban migration flows are the traditional push-pull factors developed by Lee(1966). The decision to migrate may involve contextual Push and pull factors; Push factors are the reasons people move away from rural areas; these include: Not enough jobs for the people living in the rural areas, difficult conditions, Land degradation may be due to over cultivation of soil because agriculture is the basic occupation in rural areas, Lack of clean water and basic amenities like electricity, health care, basic education and also poor …show more content…

People in the rural areas hear about success stories of those who moved to the urban areas and this acts as an incentive for people to move out to urban areas, those who migrate are mostly concerned with the benefits they hope to gain and give less thought to the problems that arise as a result of their migration, Rural-urban migration has long since been recognized as one of the major problems of rural development in Nigeria and yet the government has not been able to effectively curb it.(Nwosu 1979). Migration and natural population increase contribute to urban growth but is dependent on the level of urbanization. Rhoda (1983) though increase in population in the urban areas leads to a number of varying difficulties; increasing urbanization and growth of urban poverty are among the most pervasive difficulties of growing urban

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