Fluxos populacionais e migrações
Alguns Aspectos da População da Cidade de São Paulo
Trabalhadores Nacionais e Imigrantes no Mercado de Trabalho do Espírito Santo (1888-1930)
A Crise da Federação e o Separatismo no Sul do Brasil
Municípios do Estado de São Paulo: crescimento demográfico e composição da população, 1960-1970 e 1970-1980
A Esquerda Brasileira e a Questão Populacional: uma abordagem crítica
Demografia
O Trabalhador Brasileiro no Contexto de Novas Migrações Internacionais
O Trabalho no Brasil no Limiar do Século XXI
Families in Shantytowns in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1984: the rural-urban connection
Sao Paulo, influenced by national and state-wide economic change, developed into the largest and most industrialized city in Brazil. Agricultural labor was transferred to urban centers where it became an industrial labor force. This rural to urban migration was motivated by rural poverty, expanding monopolization of farm land, hopes for educational and economic opportunity, and the lure of urban life. This dissertation explores the history of two shantytowns in Sao Paulo in order to determine the consequences of post-World War II economic development policy. It examines the city's effectiveness in absorbing rural migrants and the adaptability of these migrants once they arrive. Demographic and economic data collected from field work supplements in-depth interviews from randomly selected rural migrants which compares their lives prior to coming to the shantytown with their lives in the shantytown, and with their expectations for the future. The study first presents a physical description of these shantytowns and important individual and household characteristics of the inhabitants. Migration data is then analyzed to determine how the timing of migrant arrival and the size of their place of origin influenced housing and job acquisition, and adaption. Since decisions to migrate emanated from within the family and since they resided in the shantytown in family groups, the family was used as the unit of analysis to analyze internal decision-making in order to verify how the family structure and roles of individual family members evolved over time, distance, and setting. The interaction of the family with other mechanisms (organizations) of adaptation within the shantytown (favela) was also examined. The study concludes that the family is important in understanding the effect of national economic change and as well as being a resilient and supportive element within that change. Internal migration after World War II was found to cover greater distances without intermediate stops from the remotest districts of Brazil to Sao Paulo than previously thought. Women played a prominent role in these moves as independent actors for work-related reasons after 1965. There remains a rural texture to the shantytowns which serves to underscore the role of these settlements in linking the city with its hinterland. The shantytown was found to be an "end of the line" move reflecting, since 1975, national economic deterioration. Lastly, poverty notwithstanding, family and individual characteristics of shantytown residents assisted tneir adaptation to the city