Providing Job Opportunity in Border Areas and its Impact on the Region’s Security (A Case Study of Astara Border City)

Employment is considered as an essential need and one of the basic activities for human beings. In this regard, it is necessary to evaluate the impact of employment on security. A kind of similarity and continuity has risen between these two categories that they cannot be simply distinguished. This study has been conducted aiming at providing job opportunity in border areas and its impact on security in Astara border city. This study is of a descriptive-analytic type and it has been compiled through data collection using library method and the relevant appropriate organizations’ statistics. In this paper, by mentioning the frontiersmen’s employment and economy and introducing the effective factors on frontiersmen’s underdevelopment, we try to address the characteristics of Astara border city as the safest border city in the country. Then, we discuss the job opportunity provision in this city in the areas of industries, agriculture, fisheries, and cooperation. In addition, by explaining the difficulties, the Astara city’s development strategies, the strategies for providing job opportunities are presented. The findings of the research show that due to the released data by the appropriate organizations and agencies the Astara border city is facing with unemployment rising and thereby frontier young men’s increasing migration rate to the other cities of the province and also the other provinces of the country and by continuing current conditions it will have an unfavorable effect on the favorable security of this city. Paying attention to the frontiersmen’s employment in different fields in this region by the officials will lead to the establishment of security and order in border areas.