Internal migrations as from 1940
 But
at the same time, there were internal migration movements due to
the regional characteristics of some jobs such as the sugar cane harvest
in the north-west, which still attracts workers from everywhere in the
July-October period. Much the same situation occurs with the grape harvest
in Cuyo in late summer.
In
1940's the migratory process accompanying the industrialization of
Buenos Aires and neighboring districts deepened, going on up to this day.
According to the 1991 Census, about 6,500,000 of Argentine
people live far from their original province. A 25 per cent of the
population of Capital Federal, a 35 per cent in the province of Buenos
Aires and a 44 per cent in Tierra del Fuego are from the interior.
The
internal migrations produced some possibly unforeseen phenomena. The inland
cities lost their young population and quickened their economic decay. Those
cities which took the immigratory flows had to face the lack of infrastructure
to put up with the process and still today, they cannot help the social
conflict brought about by overcrowding. |
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