مواطنو الدول العربية في مصر من خلال التعدادات السكانية المصرية 1897-1986 : دراسة جغرافية

Abstract EN

The chief puropse of this study is to assess the volum and flow of movement of Arab nationals into Egypt,in addition to analyzing their evolution, spatial dislri-pution, and demographic characteristics.

Egyptian population censuses are evaluated as regads the reliability of recording details about Non-Egyptian nationals.

The defi-nition adopted concerning nationality is "a person's nationality is determined by his birth-place irrespective of any other connection with another country".

The volume of influx of Arab nationals into Egypt steadily increased from 1897 to 1927 to reach a climax of 2.5 % of total population of Egypt in 1927 .

This was followed later on by a marked decline .

Throughout, four flows of move-ment are chronologically traced as follows: ٠ The pre - 20th century flow,mainly from Syria, Morocco and The Sudan.

٠ The flow during the twenties was mainly from : Libya, Iraq and Palestine.

٠ The flow during the forties was mainly from the Arabianpeninsula, Jordan and Somalia.

* During the seventies a noticable influx from almost all the Arab states is recorded.

Six Arab states contribute some 74 % of the total number of immegrants, with Palestine leading the list, followed by Iraq with about 50 % of the total flow from both .

The two are followed by Sudan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan respectively.

Cairo, Giza and Alexandria attract 78 % of the total volume with almost half of the movement heading to Cairo.

The urban cetres of Egypt monoplise a maximum of 88 % of the total number of immegrants.

As regards the occupational structore of the migrants, social and personal ser-vices, trade touristic es،ab]؛shmen،s, agriculture and manufacture could be respectively listed.

This represents a departare from the previous period when agriculture represent-ed the prevailing activity of the migrants.

The paper concludes by outlining the need for a well- planned demographic pol-icy to cope with the influx of Arab nationals into Egypt.