International migration and segregation in the Brazilian Amazon

Many people work and have a substantive production about the international migration in Brazil, but just a few of them have studies in the Amazon region, a place that is more and more important over time. The Amazon attracts migrants especially from the neighbor countries, but also recently from longer distances, like United States, Portugal and Japan. The aim of this paper is to describe the main flows to the Amazon, in terms of characteristics of the individuals from Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, as well as municipalities of destination and the place of residence inside the municipality, in terms of census tracts, in a proxy of spatial segregation. The place of origin will also be considered, with the migrants that came directly from their countries or had more migratory experience inside Brazil before arrive at the municipality (internal migration), and the time of residence. The idea is to analyze better the recent migration, especially those who arrived in the 2005-2010 period, comparing with the non-migrants in order to estimate also the impact of migration in the destination areas.