Back to home page1992 - VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1
93.62.01 - Portuguese - Martin Oscar SMOLKA
Residential Segregation and the Dynamics of the Property Market in the City of Rio de Janeiro: Relocalizing the Rich, Expelling the Poor (Expulsando os pobres e redistribuindo os ricos: "dinâmica imobilaria" e segregaçao residencial na cidade do Rio de Janeiro) (p. 3-21)
The paper explores the mediating role of property market in generating residential segregation. Thus, it addresses the conceptual and methodological question of identifying (even econometrically) whether the spatial mobility of families produces the relevant market signals - mostly through changes in second-hand housing prices - orienting property capital over space, or if it is, alternatively, the latter's relatively autonomous "logic", that redefines intra-urban structures, dragging along its own market. It is shown that the market for apartments is still basically high-income oriented (in contrast with the situation in cities of the developed countries) and that the rapid (faster than family mobility) spatial desconcentration of this market - associated to phenomena such as the closing, from the inside, of the market in higher valued areas and the need for product innovation and differentiation in order to displace active demand exercized by the more profitable upper - income family market - has played an important role in expelling out the poor, albeit through indirect means, from the areas subjected more intensively to new property developments. (BRAZIL, RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY, SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION)
93.62.02 - Portuguese - José Alberto MAGNO DE CARVALHO and Claudio CAETANO MACHADO
Questions about Internal Migration in 1991 Demographic Census (Quesitos sobre migraçoes internas no Censo Demografico de 1991) (p. 22-34)
Innovations introduced in the 1991 Brazilian Demographic Census, relating to questions about migration, are analysed in this work, stressing their analytical potential as well as the comparability of data from the last two censuses. (BRAZIL, POPULATION CENSUSES, MIGRATION)
93.62.03 - Portuguese - Bela FELDMAN-BIANCO
Saudade, Immigration and the Construction of a (Portuguese) Desterritorialized Nation (Saudade, imigraçao e a construçao de uma naçao (portuguesa) desterritorializada) (p. 35-49)
Based on ethnohistorical research (1910-1990) conducted in New Bedford, an industrial town of New England, USA, this paper is directed at unveiling an apparent paradox: on the one hand, the analysis of domestic structures indicated that there has been since the late 1970's both an intensification of old and the emergence of new forms of transnationalism among Portuguese families; and, on the other hand, the observation of grass-roots "community events" suggested a simultaneous and progressive increase of ethnic insularity. Although they may seem contradictory, the seemingly paradoxical trends can be shown to result from the same dynamics. This dynamics is related to the progressive internationalization of the world economy, nation-states changing forms of control over international migrants and the (re)construction of imagined communities (Anderson 1983) that may be spatially dispersed. (UNITED STATES, ETHNIC GROUPS, IMMIGRANT)
93.62.04 - Portuguese - Teresa SALES
Alien Immigrants, Brazilian Immigrants: A Bibliography Revision and Some Notes for a Research (Imigrantes estrangeiros, imigrantes brasileiros: uma revisao bibliografica e algumas anotaçoes para pesquisa) (p. 50-64)
This article focuses mainly on some related issues: the new kind of international migration caused by demand of labor in West Europe and in the United States of America, that results on illegal migrations and social conflicts; the immigrant integration in the labor market; and some aspects of the recent migratory issue in the United States of America. At last, it points some aspects of Brazilian immigrants in the United States and purposes an approach to study this subject in a future research. (UNITED STATES, IMMIGRANT, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION)
93.62.05 - Portuguese - Franklin GOZA
Brazilian Immigration to North America (A imigraçao brasileira na América do Norte) (p. 65-82)
This article is a comparative study of Brazilian immigration to Canada and the United States. Analyses of recently collected data, in Toronto, Ontario, as well as in a medium sized US community permit this study to examine the adaptation and adjustment experiences of a new group of immigrants to North America. This article begins with a discussion of the origins of this recent immigrant group, and its rapid expansion. Next, this study focuses on the labor force activities of Brazilian immigrants and compares and contrasts their experiences in the US and Canada. A final section examines social adaptation in North America by exploring linguistic and cultural dimensions. This paper closes with a section on the future aspirations of these immigrants. (NORTHERN AMERICA, IMMIGRANT)
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