38 International Journal of Population Studies | 2019, Volume 5, Issue 1 International Journal of Population Studies Abstract: Youth internal migration is seen as a solution to youth unemployment, and this has resulted in over urbanization and its associated negative effects such as congestion, pollution, unemployment, underemployment, and increased crime rates. The study aimed at examining the employment status of youth migrants, assessing the relationship between demographic factors and youth internal migration, investigating the association between socio-economic factors and youth internal migration, and evaluating the association between reasons for migration and migrant employment status. The study used secondary data collected in the youth employment and migration in Eastern and Southern Africa project. In Uganda, the project was carried out in nine districts. The study focused on both men and women aged 18-35 years and a total number of 1524 respondents were interviewed. Results of the study revealed that age, residence, and region had a signifcant association with migration status (p≤0.05). Age, sex, number of children, region, and reasons for migration had a signifcant association with self-employment status of the migrant (p<0.05). Marital status, sex, and reasons for migration had an association with the possibility of a migrant youth being employed (p≤0.05). The study recommends that local governments should provide the required infrastructures, social services, and amenities to encourage youths to carry out economic activities so as to develop their places of origin. Keywords: Employment status; Migration associates; Social networks; Uganda; Youth internal migration 1. Introduction Youth is all young person’s female and male aged between 18 and 35 years (The Government of Uganda, 1995). The study used Uganda’s defnition of youth. Youth is a stage of human development during which young people make the transition from childhood to adulthood and from dependence to independence and interdependence. This transition (social, economic, and biological) is fundamental to safeguarding, shaping, further developing, and deploying their human and social capital. It is during this period that youth make important decisions about their lives particularly their ethical, social, economic, cultural, political, and civic positioning and role – setting the stage for adulthood (United Nations, 2014). On the other hand, migration is the movement of a person or group of persons from one geographical unit to another across an administrative or political border wishing to settle defnitely or temporarily in a place other than their place of origin (United Nations, 2003). Migration comprises internal and international migration. Internal migration is movement within the same country, from one administrative unit, such as a region, province or municipality to another. Internal migration is usually in the form of Rural Urban Migration (RUM) or Urban to Urban migration. In contrast, international migration involves the crossing of one or several international borders resulting in a change in the legal status RESEARCH ARTICLE Internal youth migraton in Uganda: Analyzing associates and employment outcomes Sandra Mirembe 1,2 *, Abel Nzabona 2 , John A. Mushomi 2 1 Center for Population and Applied Statistics, Makerere University, Uganda, 2 Department of Population Studies, Makerere University, Uganda ARTICLE INFO Received: January 20, 2019 Accepted: August 23, 2019 Published: September 6, 2019 *CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Sandra Mirembe, Master of Arts in Demography, Researcher, Centre for population and applied Statistics (CPAS), Makerere University, Uganda. mirembesannie@gmail.com CITATION Mirembe S, Nzabona A, Mushomi JA (2019) Internal youth migration in Uganda: Analyzing associates and employment outcomes. International Journal of Population Studies, 5(1):38-49. doi: 10.18063/ijps.v5i1.969 Copyright: © 2019 Mirembe S, Nzabona A, Mushomi JA. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/), permitting all noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.