Current problems and environmental threats due to population migration as a result of urbanization

Abstract

In the modern world, in conditions of constant social change, intensification of globalization and Europeanization, the phenomenon of labor migration has become enormous and has affected the different levels of intensity of all modern societies, social communities and groups. Labor migration, in fact, is a complex socio-cultural process, which is terminated by economic and socio-cultural factors and, at the same time, affects all aspects of public life. One of the most characteristic features of the development of modern society is the rapid growth of cities and the continuous rate of increase in the number of their inhabitants, that is, urbanization. It seems to entail the most significant social transformations in human history. Urbanization is a process of