The Amazon, territorial movement: Precarious lives

Abstract

The article first deals with the relevance of the theme of “migration” in the contemporaneity and the methodological implications of using this category, as well as the approaches that focus on the strategies and tactics used by social agents in a micro- historical dimension, always relational, in order to think about the spatial mobility in the Amazon. Then, it analyzes the government policies for the development of the Amazon region, in which the working poor movement, subjected to the landowners and state’s violence are contextualized under the military dictatorship, with civilian support, political legacy that will incorporate into the period of democratization. The text ends with remarks that situate the accounts and experiences of workers in a deepening framework of precariousness and vulnerability of their living conditions, but reports that also reveal new forms of resistance. Reports of workers, documentation from “Comissão Pastoral da Terra” (CPT) and newspaper materials are the sources in which the analysis for the article are supported, related to researches conducted based on the central theme “workers and occupation policies in the areas of the Amazon”.

Keywords: Amazon, migration, social dislocations, reports of workers, precarious lives.