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Elaborate on the types of Modern migration.

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Rural – Urban migration

This is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas.

Reason:

- Search for employment.
- Shortage of farming land in some rural areas.
- Opportunity to engage actively in trading activities.
- Availability of better recreational facilities and good infrastructure.

Urban – Rural migration

This is the movement of people from urban centers to rural centers.

Reasons

- Retirement from employment.
- Overcrowding and high cost of living.
- Difficulties experienced in towns.

Rural – Rural migration

This is the movement of people from one rural area to another.
Note: Most rural – rural migrations are permanent especially in cases of
movement to settlement schemes.

Reasons

- Resettlement of people displaced by the construction of big dams which
form lakes.
- Establishment of settlement schemes (irrigation schemes) which attract
many people from other densely populated rural areas.
- Settlement of landless people by government .
- Seasonal migrations by nomadic pastoralists in search of pasture and
water.
- Search of employment in large plantations.
- Mining activities which may force people to move away from their
original homes.
- Government actions which may force people to move away from areas
where they had settled in order to conserve the environment e.g. Mau water
catchment forest.
- Political unrest which may cause people to relocate from one place to
another (IDPs Internally displaced persons)
- Natural disasters e.g Floods which may force people to move temporarily
to safer higher grounds.

Urban – Urban migrations

This is the movement of people from one urban center to another.
Note: These migrations occur in a small scale .

Reasons

- Job transfers from one town to another.
- Opportunities for business people to expand their businesses in bigger
towns.
- Religious pilgrimages which may result in people settling down in the towns they visit.

marto answered the question on March 18, 2019 at 10:52

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