Internal migration is one of the most dynamic phenomena of last decades in post-communist Albania and has shaped the socio-economic and demographic situation of the country (UNDP 2002). Since the early 1990s over 400,000 people, out of 3.1m, are estimated to have migrated within the country (INSTAT 2004; World Bank 2007). Between 1989 and 2001, the share of urban population increased from 35% to 42% (World Bank 2007). The internal migration flows show a distinctive regional trajectory. People are moving from rural areas of the North-Eastern districts towards urban areas in the Central Region of the country (Figure 1).