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ABSTRACT
Migration is difficult to define, but it involves a permanent or quasi-permanent change in residence of twelve months or more. Migration is a form of geographical mobility between one geographical units (origin) to a certain destination generally involving a change of residence from a place to the place of arrival (destination). It involves a permanent or temporary change of residence from one neighborhood settlement. In the past years rural to urban migration in developed countries grew during the time of industrialization, when more mechanized farming needed few agricultural workers in the rural area and when there was demand for labor in urban based industries. There are different problems created by rural urban migration, these problems adding to urban unemployment, increasing pressure on housing resources, traffic congestions, social and psychological stresses amongst the urban population as well as poverty. This study attempts an investigation into the socio-economic effects of rural-urban migration on development in Oluku community, Edo State. Rural-urban migration is part of worldwide process of migration which drawn from the rural agricultural sectors to provide need of man power for the urban industrial sector where productivity is increasing as a result of capital accumulation and technological advancement. The main objective of the study is to assess the socio-economic effects of rural urban migration, assessing the origin of majority of migrants, identifying dominant migratory groups on the basis of age, sex, marital status, suing Oluku community as a case study. While preparing this work, 176 respondents were used as sample size in the questionnaires and analyzed using the simple statistical techniques, percentage values, tabular representation the SPSS software was also used to analyze and interpret the collected data.
