Aspects at the Back of Internal Migration and Exploring the Changes in Migrant’s Livelihood after their Arrival in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Abstract

The main objective of this paper was to examine the factors which determine the internal migration to Dhaka city, Bangladesh and to find out their impact on migrant’s livelihood aspect. The sample comprised 448 individuals from the rural and urban areas towards Dhaka city. In this study I enhanced to analyze and interpret the determinants of socio-economic, economic and environmental factors associated with the internal migration in Bangladesh. The study showed the factors that affected the internal migration were mainly occupational, educational and climatic. These factors were analyzed and discussed through the migration theories- neo classical theory, new economics of migration theory and network theory. The ordinary least square technique was applied on three regression models which indicated that there were differences due to internal migration regarding to these economic, demographic and environmental factors in Bangladesh.Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 Research problem 1.2 Aim and scope 1.3 Outline of the thesis 2. Background 2.1 Previous research 2.2 Theoretical foundation 2.2.1 Neo classical theory 2.2.2 New economic theory of migration 2.2.3 Network theory 2.3 Hypothesis 3. Data 3.1 Source material 3.2 Sample 4. Methodology 4.1 Limitations and statistical model 4.1.1 Limitations of the study 4.1.2 Statistical model 4.2 Definition of variables 4.2.1 Dependent variables 4.2.2 Independent variables 5. Empirical analysis 5.1 Statistical results 5.2 Discussion 6. Conclusion References Appendix