The Spatial Network of Internal Migration and the Educational Trajectories in Brazil, 2008-2019

José Irineu Rigotti, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Renato Hadad, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
Marcia C. Castro, Harvard University
Janaina Guiginski, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Our main objective is examining whether internal migration affects the educational trajectories of students in Brazil, considering its high educational, social and regional inequalities. We approach this question from three specific angles: 1) Selection: Is migration selective by school trajectory in the origin’s municipalities? 2) Assimilation or Segregation: Are young migrants more (or less) prone to fail in educational trajectories in the destination’s municipalities? 3) Education-gain or Education-drain: After the movement, do migrant improve the school trajectory when compared to their former schoolmates who stayed in the origin areas? From the INEP Longitudinal Database, a total of 2,934,859 students were selected from 2008 to 2019, attending the Regular Education and who were six or seven years old on March 31, 2008. We follow the migrant students (426,576) belonging to 5,570 cohorts from each municipality and compares them with the non-migrant counterparts (2,047,702), both in origin and destination, before and after migrating. We use a sequence analysis technique, and map eight trajectory typologies, as well as origin and destination migratory flows. The comprehensive approach of this study reveals the diverse and nuanced educational situations that could inform the development of more context-specific educational policies for a population in movement.

Keywords: Internal Migration and Urbanization, Inequality, Disadvantage and Discrimination, Longitudinal studies , Social network methods

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