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In general, poorer people. Most favelas are around Rio de Janeiro though other cities have similar problems with housing. A large portion of the favela residents are migrants from the North and Northeast who traveled South in search of work after certain industries in their home region subsided. There were periods of massive Immigration south which saw millions of people arriving in only a decade.Type your answer here...

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