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Mind Map by ellieravenscroft, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ellieravenscroft
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Rural to Urban migration- Caatinga to Sao
Paulo, Brazil- LEDC
- Movement
- Caatinga-Sao Paulo
- Movement of people from the
poor North East to the rich
coastal cities
- In the course of the last 25 years,
approximately 200,000 people have
migrated into Sao Paulo city centre
- Caatinga has 25 million in
habitants, 28% of Brazils total
population
- Caatinga-Sao Paulo
- Push Factors
- Environmental
- low unreliable rainfall causes droughts
- Difficult for farmers to grow crops
- Caatinga is an isolated area
- deserification
- low unreliable rainfall causes droughts
- Social
- Infant mortality rate of 25%
- No piped water, electricity or
sanitation
- Lack of schools and clinics in area
- few social services
- low quality living conditions
- Infant mortality rate of 25%
- Economic
- Low average monthly
income- $253.49
- lack of job opportunities
- Low average monthly
income- $253.49
- Environmental
- Pull Factors
- Economic
- More Job opportunities
- higher wages- average
monthly income $721
- Industry opportunities
- More Job opportunities
- Social
- Jobs are less physically demanding
- Perceived image of the
'glamourous' city attracts
people
- More schools and
higher quality
education
- More social services
- wide cultural diversity
- Jobs are less physically demanding
- Environmental
- More accessable
- Better infrastructure
- Climatic conditions made less harsh by
water systems and more resources
- More accessable
- Economic
- Positive impacts of this Migration
- More land is left for people in rural areas,
improving quality of life
- Food supplies for rural people increase
- 70% of money earned in Sao Paulo can be sent
home to families in the rural areas to improve
living standards or pay for new agricultural
equipment
- Sao Paulo will gain a wide variety of tradesmen
- More land is left for people in rural areas,
improving quality of life
- Negative Impacts of this migration
- Increase of 25% decline in resources in Sao
Paulo due to stress of growing population
- Less people will live in rural areas meaning less
crops will be grown, impacting the country on a
national scale
- The most active tend to migrate (mainly men),
meaning the farming will be left to the women, elderly and
children
- Children and the elderly tend to not
migrate, meaning there is a demographic
imbalance in both rural and urban areas
- Increase of 25% decline in resources in Sao
Paulo due to stress of growing population
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