Return from the World: Economic Growth and Reverse Migration in Brazil (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226832906)

An anthropologist's investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages.

In Return from the World, anthropologist Gregory Duff Morton traces the migrations of Brazilian workers who leave a thriving labor market and return to their home villages to become peasant farmers. Morton seeks to understand what it means to turn one's back deliberately on the promise of economic growth.

Giving up their positions in factories, at construction sites, and as domestic workers, these migrants travel thousands of miles back to villages without running water or dependable power. There, many take up subsistence farming. Some become activists with the MST, Brazil's militant movement of landless peasants. Bringing their stories vividly to life, Morton dives into the dreams and disputes at play in finding freedom in the shared rejection of growth.

Author: Gregory Duff Morton
ISBN-10: 0226832902
ISBN-13: 9780226832906
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2024
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d