The impact of migration on urban security and the quality of urban life

Gjoreski, Igor and Petreski, Toni (2019) The impact of migration on urban security and the quality of urban life. Security Dialogues, 10 (1-2). pp. 337-349. ISSN 1857-7172 eISSN 1857-8055

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the impact of migration on urbanization, that is, on urban
security in major cities and the quality of urban life. Urbanization itself has its own positive
and negative challenges. The positive challenges are most often associated with accelerated
modernization of cities and their industrialization, economic development, democratization, im�proved quality of services, cultural development, education, etc. According to some unwritten
rule, the quality of services in urban areas increases in proportion to the increase in the popula�tion. On the other hand, the large concentration of population in a small area highlights the dis�advantages that are a side segment of the urbanization and are most often related to security,
i.e. to the so-called “urban security”. The shortfalls are associated with the increased occurrence
of negative social deviations, poverty, increased crime rate, lack of drinking water, enormous
soil, water and air pollution, concentration of large populations in a small area, vulnerability to
terrorism, increased noise, scarce green areas, appearance of a specific microclimate, climate
change, etc. This also leads to a division of the population living in neighborhoods, which are
most often formed based on the economic power of the population and security. There are also
poor neighborhoods that may be hotbeds of negative social deviations and are characterized by
a lack of security of the population. This, in turn, requires the city authorities and the state to
invest additional resources in finding mechanisms that will remove such shortfalls and allow the
population greater equity and security. Urbanization is widely accepted by a large proportion
of the population, but there is also strong resistance in part of the population that opposes
modernization and urbanization and is attached to the traditional way of life in the rural areas.
The paper aims to emphasize some of the benefits, but also some of the challenges that are a
segment of the urbanization, that is, the migration of the population and urban security and the
quality of life of the population.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Political Science
Divisions:	Military Academy
Depositing User:	Igor Goreski
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2022 10:07
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2022 10:07
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/29926

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