• MALEBO MANCHA MASSA
• DR. SUKHWINDER SINGH

Human mobility is part of livelihood and is increasing in the Gamo Highlands of southwest Ethiopia. We postulate that this substantial phenomenon is less documented and not well informed. To explore this, a migration event history analysis was conducted. The results indicate that the outmigration rate is larger when compared with the average migration rate counted for Ethiopia in the 2007 census. The results specifically show that distance appears to be a weak determinant of rural-urban outmigration; migrant statuses are common knowledge to the family at origin; many young adults (mainly young men aged between 10 and 34 years) move out leaving the underdeveloped agriculture but few of them return home with non-agricultural skills; out-migrants mainly move for economic motives but return-migrants return back home for non-economic motives; and relatively larger proportion of male moves out for economic motives than female. These results should be of concern to policy makers.

Migration; Event History Analysis; Gamo Highlands; Ethiopia

"Flows and Characteristics of Migrants: A Migration Event History Analysis in the Rural Areas of Ethiopian Gamo Highlands", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.101-115, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812517.pdf

"Flows and Characteristics of Migrants: A Migration Event History Analysis in the Rural Areas of Ethiopian Gamo Highlands", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp101-115, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812517.pdf