Determinants of and Personal Factors in Rural-Urban Migration: Case of Comilla-Dhaka Migrants

The present study was an attempt to analyze the determinants of and personal factors in rural-urban migration. Emigrants of Lalbagh, Dhanmondi and Motijheel thanas of Dhaka city who were migrated from rural Chauddagram, Nangalkot and Laksam upazilas of Comilla district were the population out of whom 90 individuals were selected purposively. Among 10 determinants, want of employment and lack of educational facilities in the village, opportunity of more income in the city and worst-off condition of the individuals were the foremost reasons behind rural-urban migration. Besides, individual characteristics like age, sex, education, occupation, marital status etc. were studied and were found that the young, male, educated, high occupational and un-married persons were largely migrating to the city. About 49% of the principal migrants were between 26-40 age-group and 48% had completed above 12 years of schooling. There were only 2 female as principal migrants and only 14.44% of the migrants were married at the time of migration.