Abstract
Este articulo presenta un esquema evolutivo de la relacion entre migracion y ciudad. Describo los aspectos centrales de tal relacion historica como preambulo para examinar tres aspectos de la situacion actual: los diversos determinantes de flujos contemporaneos de trabajadores, los origenes politicos de la resistencia a la migracion internacional y el renovado papel protagonista de areas metropolitanas en calidad de nodulos estrategicos del sistema internacional. Como parte del tercer tema, esbozo el surgimiento del transnacionalismo como forma novedosa de adaptacion inmigrante y como una respuesta potencial a la logica prevaleciente del capitalismo global. Por ultimo, discuto las implicaciones teoricas y de politica publica que se desprenden de este analisis. ABSTRACT 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.