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Migration and rural opportunities in Nigeria.

Adekola George Adepoju

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This study is concerned with migration to rural areas in Nigeria. The author examines the rural economic structures, social systems, and demographic features affecting such migration. These features are compared for migrants and nonmigrants in the cash cropping and subsistence cropping areas of southwestern Nigeria. The results suggest that rural migration in southwestern Nigeria is mainly urban-rural migration of a colonizing type. Data for the study are from a survey of 1,782 households in 12 villages.

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Key concepts: Subsistence agriculture, Cropping, Geography, Cash crop, Socioeconomics, Rural area, Internal migration, Developing country