Culture and Population Movements with emphasize on Migration trends in Iran and its neighbours

The aim of this paper is to find out relation between culture and population movements with emphasize on migration trends in Iran and its neighbours.These are Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Yemen Countries. The main question of this paper is that; do countries with different historical and cultural experiences (e.g., Iran,Pakistan and Turkey), and economic growth (e.g., Afghanistan vs. Pakistan) manifest similar patterns of migration change? More specifically, the study attempts to examine Hammel Theory on relation between demographic changes and cultural traits in Iran and its neighbours. Research method is documentary analysis. It is tried to monitor the national and international invaluable sources. Data used in this research are mostly taken from the United Nations Population Division (2011 Revision) and the World Bank (WDI 2011) for the period 1990-2010 and Human Development Report (HDR) for 2011. This study is confirmed Hammel’s theory for those countries which have same human development level.