Abstract

PORTES, Alejandro. Inmigración y metrópolis: Reflexiones acerca de la historia urbana. Migr. Inter [online]. 2001, vol.1, n.1, pp.111-134. ISSN 2594-0279.

This article presents an outline of the relationship between migration and the city in its evolution over time. I sketch the central aspects of this historical relation as a prelude to examining three aspects of the contemporary scene: the various determinants of contemporary labour flows; the political sources of resistance to international migration; and the renewed protagonist role of metropolitan areas as strategic nodes of the international system. As part of the latter process, I sketch the rise of transnationalism as a novel form of adaptation to immigration and as a potential response to the overriding logic of global capitalism. Implications of a migration-centered approach to cities for theory and policy are dismissed.

Keywords : immigrants; urbanization; transnacionalism; globalization; social networks; capitalism.

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