Migration from Rural Areas: Employment and Education. IIEP Seminar Paper: 26.

Autor/in	Hallak, Jacques
Institution	United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning.
Titel	Migration from Rural Areas: Employment and Education. IIEP Seminar Paper: 26.
Quelle	(1976), (20 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Developing Nations; Differences; Economic Factors; Foreign Countries; Migrants; Regional Characteristics; Rural Education; Rural to Urban Migration; Rural Urban Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Statistical Analysis; Theories; Unemployment; Urban Areas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Unterscheiden; Ökonomischer Faktor; Ausland; Migrantin; Regionaler Faktor; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Landflucht; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Statistische Analyse; Theory; Theorie; Arbeitslosigkeit; Urban area; Stadtregion
Abstract	Discussing migration and migration patterns in the third world, this paper asserts that the failure of plans for controlling rural to urban migration is due to: lack of knowledge about the phenomenon; the favor given to one-dimensional interpretations stressing certain aspects of urban economies; and the implicit assumptions underlying most solutions offered which are rarely consistant with the socioeconomic contexts of the countries involved. Discussion centers on: the nature of migration and how to assess it (suggesting that two-ended assessment is necessary for a valid picture of migrants, the migrant is characterized as normally young, rational, economic, educated, job-seeking, encouraged to migrate by urban friends/family, and poor); what happens to migrants in urban areas (citing statistics on Botswana and Tanzania wage earners vs non-wage earners, including the self-employed, argument is presented relative to the dangers of generalizing migration statistics; e.g., in Tanzania, 67% of all urban adults are migrants, more than 77% of the wage-earners could be so classified, while only 62% of the non-wage earners are migrants); the solutions and the role of education (suggestions for eliminating urban unemployment generally include encouraging a decline in the rural-urban migration and/or via educational ruralization, vocational education, etc., restricting migration, while this study suggests that unless a radical change reduces rural-urban disparities, ruralizing education will either fail to stop the urban influx or succeed partially in legitimizing inequality of opportunity). (JC)
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Update	2004/1/01