Paper short abstract:

Rural migrants in cities are under the double pressure of innovation and traditions. This fact actively works toward the growing of urban poor among migrants. In this paper I intend to discuss the possibility of a cross-cultural focus of the problem.

Paper long abstract:

Rural migration involves migrants in active participation in the economic life and problems of the urban areas. Rural migrants arrive in the urban area as a labour resource, and they have their own special views on life and traditions in their Mode of Lifestyle. Actually, and primarily, they had no possibility of solving their economic problems in the rural area; and particularly in the local mode of life. Rural migrants have hope that successful changes in their life style can be made, and that they will have economic success; but, quite often, they are not willing to change any traditions of their life; like, for example, their role in a system of traditional kinship relations.

Rural migrants in cities are under the double pressure of innovation and traditions: they need to adopt to a new mode of life in a city and, at the same time, assist their kinsfolk on accordance with norms of traditional modes of life in the rural area.

Programs and projects which trend toward solving economic and humanitarian problems in the area (both among city-dwellers and countrymen) can objectively assist in providing reforms that accord with norms and concepts adaptive toward Sustainable development for society.