2018 State of Food and Agriculture: What You Didn’t Know about Migration – Test Your Knowledge!
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High-income destination countries increasingly perceive international migration as a major challenge.
However, international refugees are hosted nearly entirely by developing countries (85 percent). Around nine out of ten refugees are hosted by developing countries.
Rural populations of those countries often feel the largest impact. Globally, at least one-third of the refugee population is located in rural areas, with the share exceeding 80 percent in the case of sub-Saharan Africa.
Rural migration is an important component of all international and national movements
Rural migration is defined as migration that takes place to, from or between rural areas, independent of the destination or origin or of the duration of the migratory movement. Rural migration is an important component of both internal (within countries) and international (between countries) migration.
Due to the complexity of factors that drive it, rural migration usually takes different forms.
It can be permanent or temporary, often taking the form of seasonal movements between urban and rural areas in search of employment. It may be voluntary or forced. It can also take the form of rural–rural migration.
In fact, on average in developing countries, a larger share of people migrate between rural areas than from rural to urban areas.
Migration between rural areas is particularly important in rural-dominated societies such as in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, while rural–urban and urban–urban migration is most common in more urbanized societies such as in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the Near East and North Africa, when one speaks about the developing world.
Internal and international migration are connected
Internal migration is often linked to international migration in that people who have already undertaken internal migration are more likely to migrate internationally. For instance, a migrant may initially move internally and later on migrate internationally, or vice versa. Indeed, across all country income groups, the share of people planning to migrate internationally is higher for those who have moved internally in the last five years, compared to those who have not.
Not only men migrate
Women’s participation in international migration has been increasing. They now represent approximately half of all international migrants. This varies by region, however, as males constitute the majority of international migrants in sub-Saharan Africa – from 60 percent in Eastern Africa to 80 percent in Western Africa.
It varies by age as well: in Western Africa, boys younger than age 15 rarely migrate but young girls often do.
In terms of internal migration, comparable data by gender does not exist at a global level; however, country-level data show that, in many societies, female out-migration is more prevalent than male out-migration.
Of the 31 countries being considered in the report, over 50 percent of the population – 58 percent of women and 56 percent of men – have moved internally at least once.
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. *SOURCE: FAO – UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Go to ORIGINAL. 2018 Human Wrongs Watch
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2018/10/16/2018-state-of-food-and-agriculture-what-you-didnt-know-about-migration-test-your-knowledge/
