Assessment on socio-economic challenges of rural- urban migrants in Addis Ababa (the case of Gullele sub city)
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2019-09
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Migration is considered as the movement of people from one geographical region to another, which may be on temporary or permanent basis. People continuously migrated to urban centers due to pushing rural problem and pulling urban attractions respectively. The movement poses some challenges in the rural migrants as well as in the urban residents even though; there are benefits derivable from it. On this perspective, this study was focused on the Assessment on Socio-Economic challenges of Rural- Urban Migrants in Addis Ababa (The Case of Gullele Sub City). Both qualitative and quantitative research approach was used in order to carry out this research. Based on the descriptive research design the study used questionnaires, observation and interviews as research data collection instrument. Target populations were taken from Gullele sub city. In this sub city 205 sample were used from three woredas purposively those woredas were 2, 5 and 10. This specific woredas were selected based on the fact that the migrants are highly concentrated in those locations and a place where very high informal street business undertaken. The research is important by proving information related to social, economic and demographic challenges of rural-urban migration which has a direct relation to planning and implementation agencies as well as institutions. From the data collected and result of the analysis, the study show that majority surveyed respondents of Gullele sub city were found young adults that are productive both social and economically. Most of them had educational level of primary education. The majority of them were also single. The surveys also show that a higher proportion of surveyed migrantsof the subcity were male migrants these migrants came from different areas with expectation of enjoying better life. However, Miserable life due to the failure to completely adapt and mitigate the urban life constraints such as the high cost of living due to increasing price of food and house rent, inflation, poor housing access, and poor sanitation (toilet and drinking water at working place particularly day time) were the typical manifestations of vulnerability conditions. They were also exposed to working for too long hours without any shelter, getting small payments, lack of access to education, and inability to fulfill necessities of life for human being.
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A thesis submitted to the school of graduate studies of Addis Ababa university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of master of MPMP.
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Gullele Sub city, Rural migration, Urban migration