Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the psychosocial factors motivating young adult to
illegal migration to RSA & its challenges in Duna Woreda of Hadiya Zone, SNNPR state,
Ethiopia. Both the primary and secondary data were collected. The primary data were
collected from 178 heads of migrant households and non-migrant households these were
selected by using systematic sampling techniques. Simple random and Purposive sampling
techniques were used to select the study kebeles and the key-informants, respectively. The
study has been using SPSS version 20 for descriptive statistics and inferential statistical
analysis methods. While descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze
quantitative data, thematic analysis method was used to analyze the qualitative data and a
binary logistic regression model was used to estimate psychosocial motivating factors and ttest
used to look significance level. The findings of study underlined that different
psychosocial factors and the attitude of the respondents as well as the community is towards
sending their young adults aiming at getting remittance. Finally, the challenges of illegal
migration that affected the living conditions of family, destruct the resource, caused family
conflict, loss of fee for brokers and lose permission of parents, young adults wish to migrate
rather than to learn and to work. This subjects young adults to the dangers in the travel and
lose of skilled and productive workforce. The policy makers need to work for putting in place
legal mechanisms for those wishing for illegal migration and work on the awareness creation
in the area, especially in changing the attitude of the community and that of young adults to
create new job. Finally it needed further doing research to get ample finding.
