Forced Migration and Changing Livelihoods in the Brazilian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2291176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Randell (0000-0001-9888-0365, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 548-573 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ruso.12144 |
| PMID | 29720771 |
| OpenAlex | W2556850159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 41 |
Forced migration due to development projects or environmental change impacts livelihoods, as affected households are faced with new-and often less favorable-environmental, social, and economic conditions. This article examines changing livelihood strategies among a population of rural agricultural households displaced by the Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon. Using longitudinal data, I find that many households used compensation payments to concentrate income generation efforts on the most lucrative strategies-cacao and cattle production and business or rental income. Poorer households and those that received the least compensation were more likely to continue relying on agricultural wage labor-a less desirable income source associated with not owning land or with persons needing to supplement income with additional work as a day laborer. Results also indicate that the amount of compensation received by most households was sufficient to enable them to make productive investments beyond attaining replacement land and housing. Many households invested in assets such as agricultural infrastructure, cattle, rental houses, or tractors-all of which directly contribute to future income. Displacement compensation, similar to remittances or conditional cash transfers, can therefore act as an important infusion of capital to promote socioeconomic development and poverty reduction
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Livelihood · Population · Poverty · Renting · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
A Subjetividade de uma Família atingida por Barragem na situação do Deslocamento Forçado
Changes in Social Capital Associated with the Construction of the Belo Monte Dam
How Does Transport Accessibility Affect Residents’ Livelihood and Land Use Change? Evidence From the Tibetan Plateau
Good life in the Amazon? A critical reflection on the standard of living of cocoa and cattle-based smallholders in Pará, Brazil
Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil
Mapping research on hydropower and sustainability in the Brazilian Amazon
Pretend Participation
Are large-scale hydroelectric dams inherently undemocratic
Land use change driven out-migration
The construction of the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon and its consequences on regional rural labor
How effective is poverty alleviation relocation in enhancing farmers’ livelihoods? Insights from a livelihood system perspective
Changes in everyday life of rural China
Displaced and segregated
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self-Rated Health in the Amazon
Migration and household investment in rural China
Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on childhood mortality
The Experience of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards
Migration, Transfers and Economic Decision Making among Agricultural Households
The Vanishing Farms? The Impact of International Migration on Albanian Family Farming
The importance of household asset diversity for livelihood diversity and welfare among small farm colonists in the Amazon
Moving Forward, Looking Back
The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Consumption and Investment in Nicaragua
A Model of Migration and Remittances Applied to Western Kenya
The Future of Large Dams
Evaluating the Impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família
Nobody farms here anymore
Nonfarm income diversification and household livelihood strategies in rural Africa
The Impact of Bolsa Família on Schooling
Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Latin America
Income Strategies Among Rural Households in Mexico
Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador
Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Chile
How Important are Locational Characteristics for Rural Non-agricultural Employment? Lessons from Brazil
Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in Brazil
The impact of the Bolsa Escola/Familia conditional cash transfer program on enrollment, dropout rates and grade promotion in Brazil
The short-term impacts of development-induced displacement on wealth and subjective well-being in the Brazilian Amazon
The New Economics of Labour Migration and the Role of Remittances in the Migration Process
Risks and Reconstruction
Brazil's Amazon settlement schemes
Cash Transfers and the Well-being of Older People in Brazil
For a new economics of resettlement
Migration, Remittances, and the Family
Brazil's Bolsa Família
New Perspectives on Mobility, Urbanisation and Resource Management in Riverine Amazônia
Migration and Incomes in Source Communities
Desenvolvimento, conflitos sociais e violência no Brasil rural
Development, Dams and Dilma
Off-farm Work among Rural Households
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |