Searching for a better life : peri-urban migration in Western Para state, Brazil†

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Description :
This paper examines the migration of smallholders to peri-urban interface (PUI) zones in western Pará state, Brazil. It is found that rural-urban migrants are constrained by their lack of marketable skills and as a consequence have few job prospects and experience a low quality of life in the cities to which they had migrated. This led them to resettle in places at the PUI where they have the ability to supplement limited wages with more familiar subsistence activities, which reflected cultural identity and rural antecedents while enjoying a higher quality of life. The recent implementation in Brazil of a variety of conditional cash-transfer programs has added to the attractiveness of peri-urban places and contributes to a regional shift to livelihoods based on a combination of agriculture and extractivism supplemented by support from federal assistance programs.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geographical review, issn : 0016-7428, 2014, vol. 104, n°. 3, p. 294-309, nombre de pages : 16, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, New York, NY, American Geographical Society