Getting a job (but not anywhere). job opportunities as one of the major determinants of the intrametropolitan migration flows in metropolitan area of campinas

From a historical-structural perspective in migratory studies, Singer (1980) highlights that economic inequalities between source/origin areas and destination areas can direct migration flows from economically stagnant regions to more prosperous areas. From this perspective, the gap between demand and labor supply could stimulate migration, especially from rural areas to cities. Still taking in account the macrosocial dimension of the migratory phenomenon, Cunha (1994) mentions two main reasons that are strongly associated with the migratory decision making process. The first one is the habitation market and the second would be the labor market. In this paper, job opportunities are seen as a “proxy” to the emergence of centripetal and centrifuges forces. In Brazil, over the past two decades of the last century the so called R-U (Rural - Urban) flows lost a significant portion of its relevance to more spatially localized movements, mainly between urban areas (U-U). In this sense, the metropolitan areas appears as an important territorial delimitation given the dramatic increase in the urbanization degree of the Brazilian cities between 1950-1980, a process by no way sedimented. Thus, the main objective of this article is to map the intrametropolitan migration flows of the Metropolitan Area of Campinas (MAC) and correlate these same flows with its job opportunities, using for that some specific indicators: net migration, migratory effectiveness index, stock of employees, among others. These notions can indicate the roles played by its 19 municipalities over time. The principal data source used was the Demographic Census. Others data sources used were: RAIS (“Relação Anual de Informações Sociais” - Annual Social Information Report) and CAGED (“Cadastro Geral de Empregados e Desempregados” - General Register of Employed and Unemployed), both of them were developed by MTE (“Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego” - Ministry of Labor and Employment).