Linking migration, climate and social protection in Brazilian semiarid

Case studies of Submédio São Francisco and Seridó Potiguar

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22014669
AutoresAna Cláudia Almeida (0000-0001-8469-4633, Universidade de Brasília), Alisson F Barbieri (0000-0002-1133-1089, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Saulo Rodrigues Filho (0000-0001-5937-8874, Universidade de Brasília)
Ano2020
Volume11
Fascículo2
Páginas238-251
Data de publicação2020-08-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSustainability in Debate (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2177-7675 • E-ISSN: 2179-9067
EditoraEditora de Livros IABS (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18472/sustdeb.v11n2.2020.31293
OpenAlexW3094136623
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas15

Over the known history of Brazilian sertões migration has been recorded as a human response to drought episodes. Social protection policies beginning around 2003 had dramatically diminished poverty rates and, within this context, migration changed compared to other periods, becoming more heterogeneous and diffuse. The article aims to explore the link between drought, migration and social protection in the Brazilian semiarid region based upon the analysis and conceptual discussion about two case studies: Submédio São Francisco and Seridó Potiguar. In contrast with the past, actual migration holds an indirect relation to climate. Public policy softened the impacts of the climate over livelihoods and changed the coping strategies. In this sense, mobility outside the semi-arid was not a strategy to survive. Yet, the role of the state in the preceding decades and the region’s historical path – inseparable from its climate – drew persistent migration flows that still reverberate in present dynamics

Archaeology · Climate change · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Poverty · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Ecology