Abstract
Risk tolerance is a subject that has been explored extensively globally, where predictors such as age, education level, earnings, status, occupation and weather or climate change has been proved to influence rural-urban migration. This research is necessitated to identify areas of rural migrant’s risk tolerance in urban centres of Plateau State, with the stated objective of, examining the rural migrant’s areas of risk tolerance, ascertain rural migrant’s self-assessment capacity and competence base towards risk tolerance. In the study respondents were selected only if they were rural migrants using purposive sampling techniques of a sample size of 1325 respondents. Primary data were collected using Structured Questionnaire (SRQ), Interview and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) processes. Out of 1325, 128 of the respondents were selected based on recommendation as knowledgeable informant using snowball sampling. A linear regression analysis was used to test the significance of rural migrant’s risk tolerance. The result revealed that areas of risk tolerance identified marital status, occupation, age, pursuit of education, and Job opportunities as significant to rural migrants risk tolerance in the study. And migrants were flexible towards adapting to any situation, handle problems better and were willing to take higher risks to adapt to urban centre. It is on this note that rural migrants have high self- assessment capacity and competence base potential to risk tolerance in urban centres of Plateau State.
Highlights
Risk in every facet of life has gained attention in the last decades and presently is a concern to migration as one area of uncertainty that migrants experience at the cause of their movement to a new destination that could be an economical, political and environmental risk
The level of educational attainment is crucial towards risk tolerance in the urban city centre as rural migrants qualification shows 40.9% were the tertiary level of education such as NCE, diploma, HND and degree levels whereas, occupation of rural migrants revealed a high percentage of farmers with 25.1%
The study on rural migrants' risk tolerance in urban city centres of Plateau state has been explicit on the areas of risk tolerance migrants resist threats to the physical integrity, wellbeing and fundamental rights of their staying in urban centres
Summary
Risk in every facet of life has gained attention in the last decades and presently is a concern to migration as one area of uncertainty that migrants experience at the cause of their movement to a new destination that could be an economical, political and environmental risk. Economic globalization, and technological developments are among the factors causing uncertainty in migration (2). Risks of Bokkos Journal of Science Report (B-JASREP) 2021; 1(2) 62-79 http://www.Jasrep.org/index.php/jasrep/index migration relate to threats to the physical integrity, wellbeing, and fundamental rights of migrants and it is defined as an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, can cause significant negative impact [5]. Migration decisions are rarely made without some knowledge about risks in the destination, so that an individual capability to determine risk and uncertainty is unknown. Rural migrants are said to have higher risk tolerance levels in the destination of relocation [6]
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