Includes migrants disappearing from the registers without any recorded out-migration.
Yet, despite high out-migration, those who were unable or unwilling to leave developed a deeper local identity.
One result is considerable out-migration; and another, the relative reluctance of others to migrate into the region.
Because of much out-migration from the villages, good and inexpensive housing is easily available.
In all parishes both in- and out-migration was frequent, though in some the movement was more frenetic than in others.
The point forecast for migration assumed that the recent heavy out-migration declines towards zero net-migration in the coming decade.
Despite a long history of labour out-migration, agrarian conservatism had been safeguarded by the persistence of a tribal identity.
The low rate of population growth is evidence of high out-migration, since official statistics are lacking.
