Sociological Study of Determinants of Emigration for Abhar-e- Paein (Ilam) to Australia

Hossein Mirzaie & Ehsan Babakhani

Abstract

The current study focuses on the sociological investigation of the reasons for migration form Abhar-e-Paieen to Australia based on the quantitative method. The studied samples are 100 migrants selected by Snowball sampling method. Theoretical framework of the research includes the Lee’s push-pull factors and the network theory. The results show that most of emigrants are youth (mean of age: 29.7), male (82 percent) with diploma or lower education (85 percent), belong to low and middle socio-economic status (96 percent), and belong to friendship networks (56 percent). Satisfaction of welfare amenities (b = -0.513), friendship network (b = 0.442), kinship network (b = 0.398) and social monitoring (b = 0.325) had the greatest effect on the migration respectively. Finally, origin's pushing factors and the network of migrants in destination have been specified as main factors of migration.

Keywords: International Migration, Push-Pull Factors, Network, Abhar-e-Paieen, Australia

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