Study on the factors affecting the informal settlements formation in Sanandaj (case study: Abbasabad quarter located in Sanandaj)

The immigration as a problem for third countries world has been emerged within the recent century. What causes the immigration to be deemed as a problem is impossibility of attracting the immigrants by the cities, governments’ inability in providing facilities to the mass volume of immigrants to the cities and formation of informal settlement phenomenon. The main objective of this research is studying the quality of informal settlements formation in Sanandaj and presenting strategy for their organization. The methodology of this research is applied and the data has been collected according to descriptive-survey style. The statistical society of present study is consisted of all family guardians in Abbasabad Quarter in Sanandaj. The sampleincludes 400 family guardians residing in this quarter that have been selected by random sampling. The data has been collected by researcher-made questionnaire. The results of this study indicate that regional inequalities between city and village has affected the immigration of villagers to the studied quarter and ethnic, cultural and kinship associates and joint local origins have affected the population dispersal. In addition, the summary implies the residents’ low sense of belonging to their quarter and naturally their low collaboration rate in the affairs related to the quarter.