Can Rural-Urban Household Mobility Indicate Differences in Resource Management within Amazonian Communities?

This article aims to understand the relationships between rural–urban mobility and economic differentiation in Amazonian communities, through a multi‐scaled methodological framework. We focus on Amazonian quilombola communities (Pará State, Brazil), and we use a rural–urban circulation index to unta...

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Published in:Bulletin of Latin American research 2015-01, Vol.34 (1), p.35-52
Main Authors: NASUTI, STEPHANIE, ELOY, LUDIVINE, RAIMBERT, CELINE, LE TOURNEAU, FRANÇOIS-MICHEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amazon
Brazil
Differentiation
Economic development
Economic differentiation
Geography
household complementarity
Households
Humanities and Social Sciences
Indexes
Mobility
Natural resource management
property rights
quilombolas
Resource Management
Rights
Rural Areas
Rural urban migration
rural-urban mobility
Social mobility
Urban Areas
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Summary:This article aims to understand the relationships between rural–urban mobility and economic differentiation in Amazonian communities, through a multi‐scaled methodological framework. We focus on Amazonian quilombola communities (Pará State, Brazil), and we use a rural–urban circulation index to untangle the concept of mobility system. We show that individual mobility patterns are embedded in a process of multilocalisation, articulating rural and urban areas at a collective level. Economic diversification relies on complementarity of circulation within households. In this sense, the ability of some families to maintain resource rights in different places is one of the premises for economic differentiation.
ISSN:0261-3050
1470-9856
DOI:10.1111/blar.12147