Rural-to-Urban Migration in Iraq

摘要: Iraq is a laboratory of economic and cultural change, possessing the happy combination underutilized natural resources and, through oil revenues, abundant funds for their development. This paper study one aspect that change which both consequence catalyst, rural-to-urban migration: rural conditions act as push; pattern migration--its volume, origins, destinations; nature urban pulls; way life migrants; resultant problems. Sources information include data from various censuses conducted in recent years, interviews field trips, sample survey made Baghdad 1957. 1