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Studies on the adjustment of immigrants played an important role in the sociological, demographic, and psychological literature. With proliferation of migration flow most of societies, face adjustment / acculturation challenges. In recent years, many of province centers in Iran are confronted with the movement of people from nomadic and rural areas. One of these centers is Shiraz, known as a city which has hosted a lot of nomad immigrants. Briefly the objectives of this study include: 1- to explore the correlation between the socio-cultural and demographic factors and the adjustment process. 2- to explanation of the adjustment process in terms of the influencing factors. 3- to compare the adjustment of the first and second generations. The current study emphasizes viewpoints on migration and adjustment deriving from the cross-cultural and acculturation approaches especially Kim (1988) and Berry's theories (1992) and also identity theory. In addition, this research is conducted based on the survey method. The technique that is used in this study for data collection is a self-administrated questionnaire. The population under study in this study consisted of two age groups o