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The causes and results of internal migration from rural areas: case of Eastern Anatolia

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  • K. Peker

    (Department of Agricultural Economics, Ataturk University, Erzurum-Turkey)

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Migration from rural has been an important problem in Turkey for the last four decades. This issue has been investigated with regard to its different aspects since the late 1970's. Research studies focused on its impacts on urban areas. Although the studies on migration in urban areas are more extensive, unfortunately, the studies of migration in rural Turkey are very poor and the effects of this phenomenon on the farms have been untouched. Migration from rural areas starting in the 1950's was supported, since it was regarded as the locomotive for the rapid urbanization, industrial improvement and development until the late 1970's. The conventional wisdom in the 1970's concluded that the best way to eliminate lower incomes was helping farmers to move to urban jobs but nowadays there is widespread agreement that incentive for migration to urban areas does not solve the problem of rural or urban poverty in Turkey. For that reason, Turkish Government spends millions of dollars annually on agricultural policies, and additional funds on rural development to hold people in the rural. In this study, causes and result of migration from the rural was investigated with regard to the mobility of the resources and the success of the farms in a city of Eastern Turkey, Erzurum. The results of the study showed that some causes of migration such as economical, social, and cultural from rural in Turkey are different than the causes in other countries. As a result, it can be concluded that migration from rural areas has not reached the point at which migration has a negative effect on the success of agribusiness.

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  • K. Peker, 2004. "The causes and results of internal migration from rural areas: case of Eastern Anatolia," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 50(10), pages 471-476.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:50:y:2004:i:10:id:5235-agricecon
    DOI: 10.17221/5235-AGRICECON
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