Rural-Urban Migration and the Livelihood in Urban Area: The Case Study of Savar Upazila

Abstract

This paper attempts to find the several factors which are liable for rural-urban migration respective the country. Mostly, migrants  working as garments workers and other professions living in the Savar, as it is closer to the Capital and industrial area in Bangladesh, are selected as a study area. About 60 respondents were interviewed for this study purposively to know migration's reasons from the  rural area. We have interviewed the migrants' household heads to assess migration factors and chosen randomly from the population.  The statistical tools are used to analyze migrants' aspects and find pull and push factors responsible for the migration  towards the city. They have a better income and living standard in an urban area.