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Item Impaccts of tigray war on Irregular youth migration in Adigudem town Tigray region, Ethiopia(Mekelle University, 2025-11-17) Araya Meresa HagosNowadays, irregular migration has become a universal social problem. Irregular migration is one of the most pressing agendas at this time. A more striking, however, is the steady rise of involvement of irregular youth migration. Thousands of youth have joined the risky migration process and remain part and parcel of the migration crisis. This research presented a brief survey of the degree of irregular migration of youth, causes and risks of the migration, coping mechanisms employed and interventions made by the government to halt the problem. It includes a mixed research approach, both quantitative and qualitative. The researcher purposively selected four districts and four kabeles .two from each district were purposively selected. The primary data were collected in the field through questionnaires, interview, FGD, and document analysis. To strengthen the primary collected data, the researcher utilized different official reports, documents and studies of governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Then, the collected data was analyzed using thematic data analysis technique. Consequently, the findings show that the involvement of irregular youth migration is high. Serious problem but compared to adults, it is more sever and exaggerated in youth aged greater than 17 years old. The structural factors that force irregular migrants are mainly; poverty and unemployment, lack of access to land, and lack of educational schools. The pull factors that attract them abroad include ample job opportunities, high ,wages and salaries. Furthermore, the findings also show, in addition to the structural causes, there are also significant trigger factors that exacerbate or full the flow of irregular migration. It include, direct and indirect family and, peer pressure, smugglers and traffickers, brokers,.. The defenseless youth being physically unable to face the risks/challenges of irregular migration process remained vulnerable to different risks and hazardous conditions that emanated from the atrocious and long journey of crossing deserts, jungles and oceans. In the journey the youth migrants loss their live from thirty and hunger. In addition irregular youth migrants face detention, ,,, financial and labor exploitation, abuse and all forms of violence both along the hazardous journey. Thus, the research recommends the government and other stake holders devise a viable policy and strategy that ensure that citizens in general and women and boys in particular emancipate themselves from abject poverty, have better job and economic conditions, have descent life and focus on their education only. Moreover, stake holders, enables to ensure job opportunity in the town to reduce youth migration.