Internal migration of the population  In Bahrain, according to the 2001 Census

Abstract

Is the internal migration of important manifestation of the movement of people within the region and difficult to measure at the national level only if it includes census data on migrants and their places of origin and the dates of their arrival to the enumeration areas, and classified internal migration into different types such as migration from rural to urban migration between cities and the migration across the city any within the city itself, is no doubt that the impact of internal migration is important in the population structure and distribution, as well as its importance in terms of population growth within the administrative boundaries of the state. In this Research an attempt to monitor the movement of migration between the administrative units of the Kingdom of Bahrain, where they can formulate the main problem of the search by asking the following: Is there a difference in the movement of internal migration in the Kingdom of Bahrain and what are the reasons and factors that explain the variance spatial according to 2001 census it is natural that derive many Sub-problems of the main problem. The justification Search the existence of statistical base large and provided the final results of General Census of Population 2001, as well as the importance of the geographical position of Kingdom of Bahrain and contrast in the spaces, and different economic importance and administrative units . The study showed a clear divergence in the level of attraction and expulsion of population, which reflects the apparent disparity in the level of attraction and expulsion of population between various regions, occupied the area where Mecca ranked first in terms of the volume of migration within it, followed by Asir region. While the capital Riyadh, came in third place. As for migration beyond the occupied area of Makkah and the Eastern ranked first and second respectively in terms of volume of out-migration, which reflects the size of the high population of these areas.