Health-seeking behavior of migrant beggars in

Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Most studies on beggars in Nigeria have fo-cused exclusively on the social course of in-digenous begging activities in Nigerian cities. There exists dearth of knowledge about interna-tional migrant beggars and their health-seeking behavior in Ibadan Southwestern Nigeria. A cross sectional survey data were collected through purposive sampling technique among a total of 250 international migrant beggars in six loca-tions in Ibadan. Results showed that 56 % of re-spondents were female, few had formal educa-tion, 85.6 % were married, and 94.8 % were Mus-lim. Respondents migrated from Niger (83.6%)