CHALLENGES OF YOUTH MIGRATION IN ADDRESSING HOUSEHOLDS ECONOMIC PROBLEM: - THE CASE OF ADABA WOREDA, WEST ARSI ZONE, OF OROMIA

ABSTRACT The objective of the study was to assess the Challenges of Youth Migration in addressing Households Economic Problem: in the case of Adaba district. The research consist (173) return migrants and (200) non-migrants total 373 of sample was selected by using simple random sampling techniques from three purposively selected kebeles of the woreda. Both primary and secondary sources of data was utilized the questionnaire as an instrument for data collection. Statistical tools called SPSS V.20 for doing the analysis. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentage, and graph were used for summarizing and presenting the data. With regard to inferential statistics, binary logistic regression was used to show the inter dependence between independent and dependent variables. Whereas, the qualitative data collected through depth interview was analyzed using description as well as narration to triangulate its validity and reliability with the quantitative data set. The study pointed out that the key driving forces of Adaba Woreda Youth migration to the Middle East have widely spread social, cultural, political and economic impacts on migrants’ sending community. These impacts of migration are interrelated to each other. It was difficult to examine one factor in separation of the other factors. Such as, factors motivate youth migration from the Adaba, farm land, better life, social Network, large family size extends personal business (income), Family shocks factors like death, divorce of family member, political instability, presence of Abject Poverty, Large family size Family education background, The study revealed that, challenges of youth’ sending household are family work load affects lead to low productivity, loss of ownership of assets (house, Farm land etc.), household dependent to extravagantly spending the money Psychological disturbance and presence cause for physical and health problems, Loss life, Returned Migrants come to their home with no money in their hands, Returned Migrants to come to the family with no significant material assets, Brain drain (Student Mobility) cause for depopulation of the family member, family exposed to deep Stress to pay debt, The study indicates despite the above mentioned challenges, Adaba Woreda youth migration to the Middle East also brought certain benefits to the migrants’ sending community. Migrants contributed significantly Benefits of the youth Sending households’, sending back remittance for their members, support their family members, power of cooperation in establishing New projects, Based on the logistic regression output results, the contributing factor variables (Gender, family size, Social network, Job opportunity agricultural land size,) are highly significant at 5% significant level and experience of ,Better life, ,family education, Return income are also significant at 10% significant level affects youth’s migration to decision middle East from Adaba woreda. Based on the finding the study recommended the local administration should create awareness creation discussions for migrant sending community. On this account, the local administration might also be beneficial if they organize an administrative body for investigating the magnitude of out and return migration from Adaba Woreda to the Middle East. This will be very insightful in mitigating the recurrent problems related to migration to the Middle East. 1