Population growth, sex ratios, and women's work on the contemporary Amazon frontier

Auteurs :
ROBERTS, J.T.
DODOO, F.N.

Description :
Link established between high population growth and low percentage of females in the Brazilian Amazon. Overwhelmingly, it is men who come to seek economic benefit; many of the women who come are prostitutes. In the small town of Parauapebas near the Carajas mining project in southern Pará, 500 women were in prostitution in 1985. - (DWG)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 1995, vol. 21, p. 91-106, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 40 ref.

Date :
1995

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis