'I'm going there.' Oil drilling fuels a migrant surge in isolated city in Brazil's Amazon

Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work

April 8, 2026Updated: April 8, 2026

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA

'I'm going there.' Oil drilling fuels a migrant surge in isolated city in Brazil's Amazon

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