Abstract:
This study investigated the impact of Rural-Urban migration on the development of Rural Communities in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu state, Nigeria. A total of 624 respondents were sampled. To guide the study, six research questions and four hypotheses were formulated and answered. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to sample 12 communities out of the 18 communities in Nsukka Local Government Area. Two instruments were used namely questionnaire and in-depth interview guide. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics as the need arose in the study. The major findings of the study were that there was a positive correlation between household income and migration in Nsukka Local Government Area; there was a positive correlation between migration and agricultural production in Nsukka Local Government Area; there was a positive correlation between infrastructural development and migration in Nsukka Local Government Area and there was a positive correlation between accessibility of farming resources/facilities and migration in Nsukka Local Government Area. In conclusion, migration and development among the rural dwellers can be predicted by education, household annual income, the rate of infrastructural development and accessibility of the available farming resources and facilities. The study recommended that government and nongovernmental organizations interested in controlling rural-urban migration should put more effort in providing social amenities such as electricity, motor-able roads, pipe-born water and so on in the rural settings in Nsukka, that Agro-business be encouraged among the people so as to encourage the families of migrants to invest more of the money remitted by the migrants into agricultural business and that the provision and distribution of available farming resources/facilities such as loans, improved seedling, and so on, consider household with lower income as inclusion criteria to encourage practical rural development.
