| Abstract:
During the decade of 1986-1996, Khuzestan province, compared to
other provinces of the country has had a considerable place in terms of
population relation.
The dominant pattern of migration in third world countries in that
of the villagers to cities, that takes place more according to the model
of "step migration", firstly begun from the rural areas to the closest
town. The migrant goes into the larger cities where better job
opportunity and probably more income are accessible after adapting
himself to work and living conditions in the city three or four years
past. In Khuzestan during 10 years of study, we witnessed another
pattern of migration, though temporarily, it has influenced process of
development there. This pattern is "return migration" of the people
who relocated to other cities from wartorn areas due to the Iran-Iraq
war in the early 80s.
They returned home in the late 1980s. This paper, while favoring
the classical model of stopmigration, mainly aims to further attend to
the model of return migration, which is not much prevailed in the third
world countries, but has been effective on socio-economic life of
present Khuzestan.
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