Return migration and its impact on rural settlements Case study: Barough district in Miandoab county

The return migration is a process of migration from village to city and relatively long inhabitancy there and then returns to rural birthplace. Many factors affect this process and returnee's immigrants (repatriates) played a rule in rural development. This study has done for studying return migration factors and its outcome on rural area. This is an applied research and its method is analytical-descriptive. And its foundation is based on field survey and data collection tools are questionnaire and interview. The spatial domain of this research was Barough district of Miandoab County, southeast of west Azarbaijan. The participants are householders of returnee's immigration to this district in recent decade (2009-2014) that studied the research variables by using of Censuses of 96 returnee's householders. The questionnaire validity is formal and its stability obtained by using of Alpha Cronbach 0.83. The research was analyzed by using of descriptive statistic (dispersion index and tend to center) and inferential statistic (factor analysis with analyzing of components of one sample t-test, Kendall, Path analysis). The results of factor analysis showed that variable factors had important rules in returning of immigrants that among them economic, social - prosperity factors among loaded factors dedicated the most effect with values of 2.49, and 2.31, respectively. The results of path analysis of emigrant's returnees showed that returning of immigrants in villages dedicated the most effect among development-framework indices and the least outcome on social index.