International Rural Contexts: Youth Outmigration and Education

Running head: INTERNATIONAL RURAL CONTEXTS
INTERNATIONAL RURAL CONTEXTS
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INTERNATIONAL RURAL CONTEXTS
The process of youth outmigration has been perceived as problematic for rural
communities for several reasons. The net decline of young adults belonging to rural or
nonmetropolitan areas has periodically received considerable degree of awareness in comparison
to older adults and the ones departing rural areas who have the propensity to gather greater
degree of knowledge and more proficient (Biddle & Azano, 2016). However, on the contrary the
segment of individuals who settle in metropolitan areas constitute the less educated and
proficient class with inadequate skills and competence (Petrin, Schafft & Meece, 2014). Thus,
local disadvantage tend to rise in agrarian societies not only because of the reduced rate of
economies but due to patterns of discerning outmigration which have essentially shaped the
demographic as well as socio-economic composition of local populations. However, these
processes often reveal the possibility to result in local ambivalence in terms to the role and
significance of value of education as developing knowledge and awareness has immense
integration to the process of youth outmigration (Biddle & Azano, 2016).
Certain observations on adolescence have significantly focused on the ways whereby
contexts of family and community transform the developmental trajectories of the youth
population along with increasing rate of social inequality (Petrin, Schafft & Meece, 2014).
Furthermore, few theorists have suggested the ways in which the schooling and education have
been regarded as mechanism of modernity that is further contend the agrarian communities
whereby education has perceived the distinctiveness of an assimilatory project performing the
missionary work of cultural education in the backward domain of the rural community (Biddle &
Azano, 2016). However, one of the essential roles of education in this sphere is to enhance the
developmental skills of the learners which further facilitate them to secure employment outside
the sphere of rural area and thus determines economically developed lives for themselves.