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Evaluating the role of rural-urban migration in improving quality of life indicators, case study: Islamabad and Ghaniabad villages (Shahr-e Ray)

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Authors
Zohreh Piri 1
Majid Shams 2
Alireza Estelaji 3
1 Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch
2 Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch
3 Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University
10.30470/jegr.2025.2050048.1262
Abstract
Migration is considered a complex, multi-causal and nonlinear demographic phenomenon, one of the most important strategies for human survival and an inherent part of extensive social developments that are influenced by pull-push factors in geographical spaces and strongly affect the quality of socio-economic life. Therefore, the aim of the study is to investigate the effects of rural-urban migration on changes in the quality of life indicators of rural migrants in villages-cities on the outskirts of metropolises and urban areas. In villages-cities. The statistical population of the study was all migrant households in the last 20 years in the villages-cities of Ghani-abad and Islam-abad, Shahr-e Ray, south of Tehran as research samples, which, according to an unofficial report from the village, amounted to 2800 households, and using the Cochran formula, assuming p and q values ​​of 50, 260 cases were selected as samples and the questionnaire was distributed among the neighborhoods with a random classification method to collect data. The required data were collected using a closed-ended questionnaire with distribution and analyzed with one-sample, two-sample t-tests and multiple regression. The results show that the quality of life indicators of rural migrants in the destination have improved in social (1.4) and economic (5.3) dimensions. Also, there is a significant relationship between the components of quality of life and the improvement of living conditions of rural migrants in the studied villages-cities according to the coefficient of determination of 0.666, and the greatest impact of migration on improving the living conditions of rural migrants can be reported in the indicators of diversification of employment opportunities (0.507) and the desire to stay in the destination (0.368).
Keywords
Migration
rural-urban
push-pull factors
quality of life
Shahr-e Ray
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Economic Geography Research
Volume 6, Issue 20
Summer 1404
Summer 2025
Pages 96-110

  • Receive Date 06 January 2025
  • Revise Date 19 January 2025
  • Accept Date 29 January 2025