A Survey on Impressive Factors on Student Migration a cas Study: Sistan and Baluchestan

This survey aims to study the students’ movement to a deprived province in Iran. It is going to find the factors affecting their motivations for migration. In a pilot study, it was found that there are three factors that have had the most impact on students’ movement. In this line, three factors that have had the most impact on students’ motivations for migration examined. For those who were going to continue their study in a higher degree, a high academic ranking of the university in the host city assumed to be an important factor for attracting and extending the length of their residence in the city. Many studies (Mol 1971; Bouma 1994; Hugo 1994, 2004; Wooden 1994; Western et al.; 1998, Fletcher 1999; Behrouzinia 2001, Khoo et al. 2005 etc.) found that not only there is a strong relationship between the ‘length of residence’ in the host society and employment; also this can increase the chance of decision-making to live permanently in the society. The chance of employment in a host society is another factor that has been considered here. Many studies (as mentioned earlier) have shown that this is an important factor to extend the length of residence in a host society. A number of studies (Bouma 1994, Behrouzinia 2001 etc.) also showed that choosing spouse from a host society can extent the period of residence in the society. This encouraged the study to choose the chance of marriage in the host society as the third factor. The study showed that there is a strong relationship between the three factors and the length of residence in the host society. A comparison between the factors showed that the factor of employment has had the most impact on the students’ motivation for migration. Concerning the fact that 87.9 percent of the students who were interviewed aimed to continue their study to higher degree, the factor of academic ranking of the university was more important than the factor of marriage. It was shown that the factor of marriage had less impact on the students’ migration compared with other two factors.