Analysis Of Brazil's Migration Trends

Analyse Of Brazils Migration Trends

The country that I will be analysing for migration trends is Brazil. Brazil is in South America as you can see from the map above.

There is a lot of different migration in Brazil. Many different migration schemes are occurring all over the world, things such as.

War
Slave Trade
Jobs
Don’t like area
Actors, musicians etc

Brazil is a bit different though because it has an overcrowding problem, and the government has it’s way of moving people. Here are the different migrations occurring in Brazil today.

Urbanisation

Urbanisation is when people move from a rural area to an urban area, the economic reasons for this is because there is not many jobs in the rural area. The transportation in Brazil isn’t the best so therefore it’s harder for them to get into the town. If the people of Brazil move into the urban areas for work the cost of living will be higher but there will be no cost for transportation. The environment in the rural area is much better than in the urban areas as there is more traffic in the urban areas which causes pollution. In the rural areas there are fewer people living so it won’t be as crowded, pollution will be lower. People may move to an urban area as they have been promoted and therefore can afford to live in this area and don’t anymore need to drive to work or get a bus etc and in the long run could save them money. In the urban areas there are more hospitals as well which will give an increased chance that people will survive if they get ill.

Counter Urbanisation

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Counter Urbanisation

This is whereby people move from an urban area to a rural area. People could move like this because they find it to overcrowded in the urban area. The environment in the urban areas is not as pleasant of that in a rural area, crime is more likely to be higher in the rural areas as there is more money, bigger businesses are higher up and therefore are more wealthy. People may move to a rural area to bring up their children, as they don’t like the idea of having their children grow up in a city whereby there is a bad environment physically and environmentally. Elder people may move from the city to rural areas to retire, as they don’t need to be in a busy city as all is doing to them is damaging their health, they could live in an urban area and be just as happy. If people are moving out and in of villages at a steady rate because people want better jobs in the urban areas and people move in for retirement then this could cause a lack of jobs being taken up.

North-South

People move from the north to south because there are bad soils to grow crops and therefore if that’s their way of living then its not very hopeful, the soils in the south are much better. The soils are not very good in the north as that is where the Amazon rain forest is so therefore all of the plantation is taking all the goodness out of the soil. There is bad drought is in the south of Brazil but this can be good for growing crops. The northern area has a very hot climate as its closer to the equator therefore it is hotter. The rain forest causes a very hot sticky environment when walking around in it because of evaporation and the coverage or trees helps keep the heat in. In the north there are lack of jobs because of the forest and the river, to get rid of the trees etc is costs money so there they just build elsewhere. The south has the main cities such as Brasilia, Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. In the south there is less overcrowding as there is more room to spread out as in the north people have to live where there are no trees and vegetation, this can cause people to want more freedom which persuades them to move to southern Brazil. In the south there are more jobs, and the adults children have a chance to go to school and get a better future. Adults may of brought up there children in the North to keep them away from the crime in the southern Brazil, so therefore when they are old enough they will move down to the south to get an education. The hospital facilities will be much better in the south as there is more civilization.

Into Rainforest

There are few reasons why people move into the rain forest. It could be that there family lives there and they want to be closer to their family. Another reason is that they may want to have a completely different job. The rainforest has jobs such as mining as they have metal ore. In the rainforest there is less pollution and the environment is much cleaner and healthier, the scenery is much better than a city. Where they were living may have been a rough area where there were drugs, thefts and murders and they just want to get away from all of that to a completely different area. Thieves are not going to be in the rainforest because the money is in mainly the cities. The government can have there way with people to get them to move into the rainforest, which will be explained later.

City-City

People move from city’s to city’s because there may be a better standard of living and the area may not be as rough. If a new city opens it gives people the opportunity to start again and maybe get better jobs. It’s more of a first come first served basis really, if you’re new to the city and the city is new there are going to be more jobs available. To start with the new city may not be as crowded but in time more and more people will move there if the news gets around that it’s a better city than another. If everyone moves to the new city then the old city will get old and the old factories may just be derelict and may turn into a really rough area as cost of housing will go down.

Migration To East Coast

The East Coast of Brazil is the sea, this could attract people for a lot of reasons. There are jobs on the East Coast because of oilrigs that are in the sea. Exports and imports occur on the East Coast as they can come in by boat, this means that jobs are on offer to people. The 3 main cities are also on or close to the East Coast (Brasilia, Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro) which will give work. Little businesses can be set up on the coast such as water activities like fishing, wind surfing etc, this would attract tourists to the coast. Elderly people may move to the coast because it will be a more relaxing area and they will close to the sea which they would enjoy.

Governmental Bribes

The government has this plan whereby if they tell people they get free land and free transportation if they go to the rainforest to live. Once the people get to the rainforest they learn quickly that the soils are no good because of the reason that the trees take up all of the goodness from the soils. So these people are stuck in the middle of the rainforest with no money so they HAVE to make something of it otherwise they will die. It may give the people a chance to start a new life but they don’t understand until they get there that it’s not the best place to go. Jobs are available but not many. A big job that is in the rainforest is logging, this job can require a lot of people because there are so many trees.

Conclusion

The reasons why they move can be used using a push pull model. Here is an example: -

This shows that there are a lot of reasons to go and shows the reasons why to move, push factors show why they should move and the pull factors show why they should move there.

As you can see from the above there is a lot of migration occurring. This is causing areas where theirs to many people and over crowding as people want different things in their life. The population is increasing (0.91% per year) so something is going to have to be done in Brazil as the over crowding is going to get even worse as time goes on. Some people might think about using the amazon rainforest as a chance to be the solution to the over crowding problem but a lot of people would have different ideas about this. Brazil There was a big migration scheme that used to occur earlier in out time, which was slave trade.