Internal migration

The impact from volcanic eruption of Mount Nyiragongo has caused domestic migration in Democratic Republic of the Congo population.

Internal migration or domestic migration is human migration within a country. Internal migration tends to be travel for education and for economic improvement or because of a natural disaster or civil disturbance,[1] though a study based on the full formal economy of the United States found that the median post-move rise in income was only 1%.[2]

Cross-border migration often occurs for political or economic reasons. A general trend of movement from rural to urban areas, in a process described as urbanisation, has also produced a form of internal migration.[3]

  1. ^ "World Migration Report 2020". IOM World Migration Report. 2019-11-27. ISBN 978-92-9068-789-4. ISSN 2414-2603.
  2. ^ Ben Klemens (June 2021). "An Analysis of U.S. Domestic Migration via Subset-stable Measures of Administrative Data". Journal of Computational Social Science. 5: 351–382. doi:10.1007/s42001-021-00124-w. S2CID 236308711.
  3. ^ "Urbanization and migration". Migration data portal. 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2023-08-12.