Inserção de imigrantes no mercado de trabalho dos municípios de pequeno porte do sudeste brasileiro

Abstract

The Southeast region, economic and financial center in Brazil throughout the 20th century, accounts for a significant proportion of the Brazilian economy. In 2010, this region had 1,668 municipalities, including large metropolises such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which involve an extraordinary productive infrastructure. This study aimed to analyze the redistribution of workforce migrant in the small municipalities of the Southeast in the last three decades, in order to point out new economic trends, as well as to reflect on the role of these municipalities as emerging centralities. Based on the data collected from the 1991, 2000 and 2010 demographic census, a sample of 754,432 immigrants occupied in 1,429 small municipalities (with a population of less than 50,000 inhabitants). The results allowed to indicate broader aspects of the regional economic behavior in the Southeast of Brazil and demonstrated the existence of spatial arrangements composed of small municipalities protagonists of practices not soleny focused on agriculture, as in the past.