continued until today. The following have significant
places in the drama of internal migration in the country,
- The government actions of resettling people
from one region to another such as the rather
massive, involuntary villagization program of the
Dergue or the current EPRDF resettlement
program as part of the country’s socio-economic
development efforts; - The civil wars that have raged between the
various bodies for long period of time; - The conquest of the demised successive
imperial systems as an empire building agenda; - The ever-recurring drought and the perennial,
romanticized famine question and food
insecurity of the country; - The rapidly growing population and the resultant
resource depletion and ecological deterioration; - The increasing urbanization and the seeming
presence of better opportunities therein that act
as pull factors; and - The weakening of the traditional social-cultural
and political structure of the various ethnic
groups; among others.