Abstract
This article consists of an analysis of the social and economic consequences that the new mining cycle triggered in the state of Amapá generated and is generating for the municipality of Pedra Branca do Amapari (PBA). Specifically, the migration process and the new working relationships established in the city as effects caused by the activity of mining ore in PBA. To this end, it was based on the point of analysis that mineral exploration in PBA is part of the process of occupation and regional exploitation of the Amazon and that, therefore, it cannot be analyzed only from the point of view of the historical, social and economic context of Amapa, but as part of the process of historical colonization of the region that followed, over the centuries, different economic models and forms of intervention.
Highlights
“The history of Amapá is confused with mineral exploration in the state, since the Federal Territory of Amapá was created in 1943 and, in 1946, a manganese deposit is discovered in Serra do Navio” (BARBOSA, 2011, p. 8)
The third part analyzes the city of Pedra Branca, its population increase and the labor relations within this regional context of Amazonian exploration and in the fourth we discuss the results of the field research, which was carried out by the observational method
The fact that the demographic avalanche intensified in Pedra Branca do Amapari (PBA) resulted from the migration process of work, the search for enrichment, which caused the local population to increase by almost 200%, which generated a new social process full of conflicts and socio-environmental impacts caused by this new anthropization
Summary
“The history of Amapá is confused with mineral exploration in the state, since the Federal Territory of Amapá was created in 1943 and, in 1946, a manganese deposit is discovered in Serra do Navio” (BARBOSA, 2011, p. 8). The migration process and the new working relationships established in the city, as effects caused by the activity of mining ore in PBA To this end, we start from the point of analysis that mineral exploration in PBA is part of the process of occupation and regional exploitation of the Amazon and that, it cannot be analyzed only from the point of view of the historical, social and economic context of Amapa, but as part of the process of historical colonization of the region that followed, over the centuries, different economic models and forms of intervention , but with a common characteristic: “the occupation was done invariably and still today is done from external initiatives”. The third part analyzes the city of Pedra Branca, its population increase and the labor relations within this regional context of Amazonian exploration and in the fourth we discuss the results of the field research, which was carried out by the observational method
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