Urbanization and Migration in Brazil

Abstract

Abstract. Brazil's rural to urban migration has been dramatic. In 1940 only 15 percent of the country's population lived in urbanized areas. By 1970 more than 50 percent were so classified. This trend in population concentration continues. Studies of the causes and the consequences of population shifts in Brazil when based upon “choice models” of decision making are inconclusive. The current trend in urban migration reflects the impact of structural changes in Brazil's economy including industrialization, agricultural automation, and the accompanying modifications of programs and policies of Brazil's changing governmental elite. Governmental policies designed to stem the flow of population to the cities will require structural changes in the economy comparable to those which precipitated the migration.

Brazilian Immigration To The United States And The Geographical Imagination*

“…In Brazil, models of both internal migration and out-migration have evolved over time. In the i97os, choice models for migrants-migrants perceive expected benefits of migrating, versus the net benefits of not migrating-were inconclusive, for migration trends reflected the structural changes in Brazil's industrialization, agricultural automation, and governmental policies (Wagner and Ward 1980). Other models asserted that the "information factor" contributed most to migrants' decisions.…”

What is the return period of intense rainfall events in the capital cities of the northeast region of Brazil?

“…As the unbridled development and verticalization of urban areas that lead to soil waterproofing and increased runoff. In the same way, the incomplete implementation of basic sanitation in these urban centers causes the inadequate disposal of solid wastes and the undersize of the drainage network (Wagner and Ward, ; Barbieri et al ., ). Finally, landslides, a phenomenon of geological order, also impose strong damages on urban dynamics.…”

Constructing a city, building a life: Brazilian construction workers’ continuous mobility as a permanent life strategy

“…Baeninger 2000Baeninger , 2012Lima and Braga 2013;Nunes, Silva, and Queiroz 2017) or, more specifically, on the movements' (possible) impact on the process of urbanization and economic development in Brazil (cf. Alves, Souza, and Marra 2011;Amaral, Rios-Neto, and Potter 2016;Cunha 2005;Perz 2000;Wagner and Ward 1980). The general perception in Brazil about this classical Northeast-Southeast population movement is that people from the Northeast always migrate to major cities in the Southeast with the intention of settling there permanently.…”