Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• MahmoudReza Jafarian ¹
• Shahram Yusefifar ²

¹ PhD student of history/ Azad university

² Professor of History, IHCS

Abstract

Resulting from situations and numerous conditions, emigration occurs in human societies with various types and purposeful in collective or individual forms. Depending on time and situation, emigration is observed in Iranian society in Naseri period. While Vaqiye Ittifaqiye newspaper was circulated, adverse climate conditions with unfavorable economic consequences had direct influences on people lives and businesses, and accompanied with other issues like oppression of rulers and outbreak of diseases resulted in emigration event. This paper observes and counts all accounts of Vaqiye Ittifaqiye newspaper to see how much and how frequent is emigration issue reflected? What measures authorities took to resolve the after-effects of emigration? Contributions of this paper include: finding out about the causes of emigration, analysis of in-migration and out-migration regions, and finally investigation about time and location of reported emigrations. Using content analysis and collecting all accounts, emigration is analyzed sociologically as a social issue.

Keywords

• social issue
• Emigration
• Content analysis
• Vaqiye Ittifaqiye newspaper
• Qajar dynasty