INTERACTIVE: When greener pastures lie closer to home

A residential project developed next to a padi field in Kuala Kedah, Kedah.

MUCH has been said and written about Malaysians who resettle in another country in search of a better life, but there is another type of movement that occurs that is not as well-known.

Internal migration is when people move within a country’s borders either by relocating to another state (interstate migration) or within the same state (intrastate migration). In either scenario, the migration can occur from an urban to a rural area, or vice versa.