The recent international migration in the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the migration in the north region of Brazil, mainly characterized by the presence of the Amazon. International migrants are analyzed, in particular the cross-border ones, as well as Brazilian migrants. The idea is to observe the real impact of these migrants in the destination place in the Amazon and the role of border towns in this process. Are these international migrants just passing through the border cities or the mentioned cities have enough attractives in order to some of the migrants stay in them? Were they ready to receive a substantial volume of migrants? These migrants come directly from their countries or have prior experience in other Brazilian places? To clarify this, data from demographic census of 2010 and Population Enumerate of 2007 are used to analyze the characteristics of migrants according to their origin, as well as their chosen place of destination. Based on the analysis of this paper, we can see that the profile of the migrants according to their origin is different, and also the place of destination, possibly due to social networks, which play an important role in this process of attraction of migrants in certain areas.

Keywords
spatial distribution; residential mobility; migration; Amazon