Social Panorama of Latin America 2004

Includes bibliography

The contribution of women to the economy and social protection specially in relation to unpaid work performed by women in the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Population, social equity and changing production patterns

Includes bibliography

Territórios e memórias: narrativas de mulheres que migraram na segunda metade do século XX

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Políticas públicas y migración interna en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela contemporánea

Las transformaciones del aparato productivo, los cambios en la economía global y ciertos factores políticos y sociales han configurado diversos patrones de movilidad territorial. El interés de esta investigación se centra en analizar las tendencias de la migración interna en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela desde 1971 hasta 2001. Sobre la base de la información suministrada por los censos de población y vivienda se elaboraron matrices de origen y destino multirregionales que permitieron identificar la direccionalidad de los flujos y establecer áreas tradicionales y emergentes de atracción y expulsión. La regionalización, construida a partir del índice de desarrollo humano, permitió distinguir corrientes migratorias entre regiones de alto, medio y bajo desarrollo humano, que evidencian la desigual distribución de las actividades productivas dentro del territorio nacional. Finalmente, el análisis de los resultados en el marco de los procesos histórico-estructurales demostró el vínculo que existe entre las decisiones políticas, la activación económica de los territorios y la dinámica migratoria interna.

América Latina y el Caribe: Migración interna muestra signos de transformación

Sólo disponible en formato electrónico.

Notas de Población Vol.22 N° 59

La mujer en el trabajo y la migración. El mercado laboral femenino entre 1950 y 1990 y la inmigración de mujeres a la ciudad de Santiago de Chile / Ivonne Szasz. -- Una visión sintética del ajuste económico y sus consecuencias demográficas en América Latina / Reynaldo F. Bajraj y Jorge Bravo. -- Diferenciales de mortalidad adulta en Argentina / Rafael Rofman. -- La población indígena en los censos de América Latina / Alexia Peyser y Juan Chackiel. -- Discontinuidades demográficas en Brasil y el Estado de Sáo Paulo / Alicia Bercovich y Felicia Madeira. -- Análisis preliminar acerca de las madres solteras, jefas de hogar, en Brasil durante 1970 y 1980 / Susan de Vos. -- Modelación y proyección de la mortalidad en Chile / Ronald D. Lee y Rafael Rofman.

A endemia da malária em Porto Velho (RO): um estudo baseado na análise estatítica espacial de dados multivariados

Pós-graduação em Geociências e Meio Ambiente - IGCE

Lugares da memória: a vivência da migração nordestina no interior paulista entre avós e netos

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

Economic growth, urbanization and social inequality: Reflections on the conservative Modernization

China is now facing a sudden change of redistribution of population in space as her urban population exceeds rural population. It seems necessary to learn others’ lessons by analyzing the urbanization of other developing countries, especially Brazil’s. To an extent, Brazil and some other developing countries have been unsuccessful in coordination for urbanization and improving living quality. The megacities in Latin America are the examples of swollen cities, and large groups excluded from the system of public services. It reflects in both short of infrastructures in many areas and high-levels of violence unique in the big cities in Latin America. Then the author summarizes Brazil’s lessons. Firstly, he describes the determinants in Brazil’s urbanization, especially the industrialization between 1930 and 1980. Secondly, the incentives for internal migration are analyzed, especially the industrial centralization in the southeast and the recessions in other areas. Finally, the characteristics of the present round of absorption of labor and the roots for the severe social inequality are discussed.

Da serra à costa: migração e modernização peruana na obra de Mario Vargas Llosa (1950-1960)

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Mental Disorders in Megacities: Findings from the Sao Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey, Brazil

Background: World population growth is projected to be concentrated in megacities, with increases in social inequality and urbanization-associated stress. Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA) provides a forewarning of the burden of mental disorders in urban settings in developing world. The aim of this study is to estimate prevalence, severity, and treatment of recently active DSM-IV mental disorders. We examined socio-demographic correlates, aspects of urban living such as internal migration, exposure to violence, and neighborhood-level social deprivation with 12-month mental disorders. Methods and Results: A representative cross-sectional household sample of 5,037 adults was interviewed face-to-face using the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), to generate diagnoses of DSM-IV mental disorders within 12 months of interview, disorder severity, and treatment. Administrative data on neighborhood social deprivation were gathered. Multiple logistic regression was used to evaluate individual and contextual correlates of disorders, severity, and treatment. Around thirty percent of respondents reported a 12-month disorder, with an even distribution across severity levels. Anxiety disorders were the most common disorders (affecting 19.9%), followed by mood (11%), impulse-control (4.3%), and substance use (3.6%) disorders. Exposure to crime was associated with all four types of disorder. Migrants had low prevalence of all four types compared to stable residents. High urbanicity was associated with impulse-control disorders and high social deprivation with substance use disorders. Vulnerable subgroups were observed: women and migrant men living in most deprived areas. Only one-third of serious cases had received treatment in the previous year. Discussion: Adults living in Sao Paulo megacity had prevalence of mental disorders at greater levels than similar surveys conducted in other areas of the world. Integration of mental health promotion and care into the rapidly expanding Brazilian primary health system should be strengthened. This strategy might become a model for poorly resourced and highly populated developing countries.

El nuevo mapa de las migraciones interiores en España: los cambios en el patrón de los sesenta

En el trabajo se aborda el estudio del espectacular crecimiento de la movilidad interior en la década de los noventa en España describiendo los principales rasgos de los flujos y las tasas migratorias. Además, se establecen las diferencias entre el actual patrón migratorio y el de los años sesenta. A partir del conjunto de las variables migratorias provinciales y utilizando la técnica de análisis cluster se establece una tipología migratoria de las provincias españolas. Con dicha clasificación se comprueba, además, la existencia de una clara correspondencia entre la conducta migratoria y la dinámica de las principales variables socioeconómicas provinciales.

Reinterpretando el crecimiento de la movilidad en España: la población extranjera y las migraciones repetidas

En este trabajo, tras establecer que la Estadística de Variaciones Residenciales es la fuente estadística más adecuada para estudiar las migraciones en España, se ofrece una interpretación del espectacular crecimiento que ha experimentado la tasa migratoria interior. Desde comienzos del nuevo siglo, el aumento de la movilidad se apoya en dos nuevos rasgos que redibujan el patrón migratorio español: la creciente participación de la población extranjera en la movilidad interior y la irrupción de las migraciones repetidas o remigraciones, tanto de retorno (return) como hacia delante (onward).

The Experience of Dis-placed Communities: Mis-placed Educational Opportunities

Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has a long history of out-migration and internal migration between communities in coastal areas within the province. Resettlement programs initiated by the NL government between 1954 and 1975 accounted for the internal migration of approximately 30,000 people from 300 communities. Modern-day encounters with these abandoned communities are relevant to understanding the loss of place and home, as significant numbers of students in NL today are affected by migration. This dissertation is a phenomenological study of the experiences of educators as they explored the remnants of an abandoned community. The participants of the study were six experienced public school educators with teaching experience at the primary, elementary, intermediate, and secondary levels. The study took place in eight abandoned communities located on the western shore of Placentia Bay, where mainly the remnants of Isle Valen, St. Leonard’s, St. Kyran’s, and Great Paradise were explored. Data collection consisted of two personal interviews and one group hermeneutic circle, with the aim to answer one fundamental question: What is the experience of educators exploring the remnants of an abandoned community? Data in this study are represented by lived experience descriptions, which were interpreted hermeneutically and guided by four phenomenological existentials: temporality, corporeality, spatiality, and relationality. The most prominent themes emerging from the educators’ anecdotes were determined to be attunement, tension, and intensity. The results of this study not only provide deeper insight into communities abandoned through resettlement; they also reveal the significance of place in our lives, place as heuristic teacher, the pedagogical power of place, the need for local, meaningful place-based experiences in a curriculum as lived, and their potential for furthering personal and educational insight no matter where in this world we live or dwell.