Habibollah Saeidinia

In the early 1940s, Bushehr was the Governorate General of the Ports and Islands of the Persian Gulf, which was politically subordinate to Fars Province. In the past, the ports and islands of the Persian Gulf and their hinterland areas always had a limited population and low population density due to political and social conditions and climatic conditions. In the past, whenever the political situation of the country was calm and the government paid more attention to the ports and islands, economic and commercial prosperity attracted the population and increased urbanization in these areas, and as soon as the situation became insecure, the population also dispersed. In the early 1940s, with the implementation of land reforms, conditions were created that allowed the rural population to move and migrate more. This study attempts to examine the conditions that accelerated the process of rural migration in the Governorate General in the 1940s and 1950s. The present research method is descriptive-analytical, relying on historical documents and sources. According to the research findings, this region faced widespread migration in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to the implementation of land reforms that freed up a large part of the labor force in rural areas and this surplus labor force went to the cities to find work, the climatic and weather conditions of the region and the excessive deprivation of rural areas were also the main reasons for the expansion of rural migration in the Governorate of Ports and Islands. This region, which had the lowest urbanization rate in the country in the years before the 1940s, faced high urbanization growth in the following years.