Migration objectives and their fulfillment: A micro study of the rural-urban migrants of the slums of Dhaka city

摘要

Rural-Urban migration plays an important role in poverty reduction and economic development. InudBangladesh rural-urban migration is the most important factor for rapid urbanization with urban slumsudbeing a popular destination for poor rural-urban migrants. More than 15 million people live in the slums ofudsix divisional cities of Bangladesh. Capital Dhaka alone contains about 3.4 million people in 4966 slums.udFocusing on the two largest slums of Dhaka, the study reveals that predominantly migrants came from theudnorthern and southern parts of the country and carried with them dreams of prosperity. This study evaluatesudthe migration objectives, status and the fulfillment of their migration objectives based on a survey of 373udrandomly selected temporary and permanent migrants. It was found that 82% of the migrants perceived thatudtheir migration objectives as had been either totally fulfilled or on the way of fulfillment. It was alsouddiscovered that although 68.10% of the migrants were satisfied with the socio- economic attainment ofudtheir migration objectives and wanted to come back to their place of origin after saving enough money, soudthat they could live the rest of their life out of poverty, they could not do so. The rural lack of earningudopportunities did not permit them to reverse the rural-urban migration trend.