Abstract

Since the recycling and collection of waste plays an important role in the urban environment, in this research, it has been tried to first determine the factors and factors affecting the migration of Afghans and different urban areas, and in the next step, their role in the process of waste recycling and Environmental protection should be investigated in the form of a comparative comparison in the two northern and southern neighborhoods of Tehran, that is, Valenjak neighborhood in Region 1 and Ray Shahr neighborhood in Region 20. From this method, the present research tries to achieve this goal in a descriptive-analytical way and with a survey data collection method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire, and the sample size was equal to 100 people, which was selected using a snowball method. The results of the research have shown that the financial and economic necessity as well as various social and cultural aspects play an important role in the destination of the immigrants, that the neighborhood of Shahre Ray has more possible and relative indicators than the neighborhood of Velanjak. Another point is that immigrants generally work in informal sectors, one of these sectors is garbage collection and employment in the urban waste recycling process. The results showed that the Afghan immigrants in the city of Ray are more involved in the process of urban waste recycling than in the neighborhood of Valanjak. Another point is that immigrants are more involved in the waste collection phase.