Internal migration in Brazil

In Brazil, economic factors exert the greatest influence on migratory flows, as the capitalist production model creates privileged areas for industries, forcing people to move from one place to another in search of better living conditions and jobs to meet their basic survival needs.

At the time, the coffee cycle and the industrialization process made the Southeast a major attraction for migrants, who left their region in search of jobs or better salaries.

As a result, unemployment and underemployment in the service sector grew due to the increase in the number of informal workers and street vendors.

Currently, the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro register a greater outflow of population from the metropolises towards the medium-sized cities of the interior.

In addition, some states, which traditionally had more emigration, have become regions of immigration, such as Pernambuco, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.