International Migration and Segregation in the Brazilian Legal Amazonia

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to provide an assessment of international migration into the Brazilian Legal Amazonia, a little explored area in scientific papers dealing with population studies, with a particular emphasis on migrants from the major emitters of people for this region, with borders with the Amazonia, especially Peru and Bolivia. According to Census data, from 2010, of the nearly 30,000 foreign immigrants into the Legal Amazonia for that year, 31% were from these two countries. The idea is to analyze these migrants, comparing data regarding age, education and income levels, gender, occupation at the destination, their standard of location, municipalities of destination and the place of residence inside the municipality, in terms of census tracts, in a proxy of spatial segregation. The place of origin will also be considered, with the migrants that came directly from their countries or had more migratory experience inside Brazil before arrive at the municipality (internal migration), and the time of residence. The idea is to analyze better the recent migration, especially those who arrived in the 2005-2010 period. The data show that in terms of their origins, the characteristics of the migrants are quite different. Therefore, data from both the 2010 Census and the 2007 Population Count are used for the current analysis, including census shapefiles for the mapping.

Keywords

• migration
• spatial segregation
• Amazonia