Resumo

For the German sociologist Ulrich Beck (2019), modern society is experiencing a disruptive moment and is becoming a risk society, a phenomenon that does not respect classes or borders and generates unknown consequences for human health and the environment. Based on this context, the problem proposed in the present research is to analyze whether the Covid-19 pandemic, understood here as the materialization of Beck's catastrophist theory, accentuated or not the migratory flows from the city to the countryside, the so-called urban exodus, especially in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The objective of the research is to draw a parallel between the humanitarian and sanitary catastrophe and its supposed influence on migratory flows, analyzing whether the State of Minas Gerais experienced a real migratory flow from large urban centers to smaller cities due to fear caused by the pandemic. This migratory flow both from the point of view of cataloging data of the new social demands and from the point of view of the offer of real estate in view of this new way of living.