Structure and agency in development-induced forced migration: the case of Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam

Using longitudinal, qualitative analysis of data from 67 semi-structured interviews conducted over the course of 2 years with 39 households displaced due to the dam of Belo Monte’s rural agricultural population whose homes and land were flooded, the author asks how structural factors such as compensation policies as well as social, financial, and human capital may either foster or constrain migration.