Banca de DEFESA: ISAC ALVES CORREIA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : ISAC ALVES CORREIA
DATA : 23/02/2018
HORA: 10:00
LOCAL: FACE/ Cedeplar - UFMG
TÍTULO:

Vulnerability and adaptation in Seridó Potiguar: the (i) mobility and domiciliary strategies

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Migration; Household Population Composition; Population and Environment; Climate Change; Drought

PÁGINAS: 79
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
ÁREA: Demografia
RESUMO:

Recent studies indicate that climatic events will intensify and may lead to the displacement of entire populations in some localities, mainly semi-arid regions where the drought phenomenon is recurrent. In this sense, migration, among other strategies such as fertility regulation, can be understood as alternatives for families to adjust to a situation of threat of resource scarcity or loss of status. However, the association between environmental change and migration is still inconclusive, both due to the difficulty of dissociating individual motivations and economic character, as well as the limitations of population surveys. In addition, migration is just one of a range of strategies for adapting to environmental change. Based on census data and a survey carried out from January 2017 on with more than 1,000 urban households of Seridó Potiguar, the main objective of this work is to understand how families perceive the presence of threats to extreme weather events and climate change, adjust their responses. This paper also aims to understand how household demographic composition and institutional political issues can affect the decisions of these households. The main results show that the household demographic composition may have influenced decisions as well as the result of the migratory process. Above all, the smaller proportion of children under 15 years of age for migrant households suggests a combination of adaptation strategies with fertility regulation and migration. Remittances sent by emigrants to their families in the region of origin were more present for families with lower income levels, up to two minimum wages per capita. The motivations for migrations in the Seridó region are diverse as well as the reasons for not migrating that are complex decisions that usually involve a certain degree of individual motivations and at the same time collective and domiciliary character. Although most households that did not opt for migration perceive certain risk situations in their place of origin, the type of response to these pressures may vary according to the capacity of the institutions. Income transfer programs have shown great relevance in this process either by supporting households without emigrants or by subsidizing the emigration of at least one resident. Finally, it is concluded that the migration and / or the supply of work in urban spaces have been important tools for families to deal with the risk, either with droughts or by pressures of an endogenous nature. Thus, the population concentration in the urban area that appears to be the result of these changes, although presenting certain advantages, especially speaking of domiciliary strategies such as the search for occupations in the urban labor market to increase family income, requires well-strengthened institutions to manage the risks.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1880578 - RICARDO OJIMA
Externo à Instituição - ALISSON FLAVIO BARBIERI - UFMG
Externo à Instituição - SILVANA NUNES DE QUEIROZ - URCA