ABSTRACT
Given the magnitude and ubiquity of the flows of internal migrants to Latin American cities during the past quarter century, it is surprising to find that the number of systematic studies focusing directly upon the attitudinal and behavioral consequences of the migration experience for Latin American political systems has been relatively small. There is a good deal of loosely descriptive, conjectural literature concerning the sociopolitical implications of urban migration, but the empirical research attempting to measure some of these implications, as far as specific types of attitudes and behaviors are concerned, has been quite limited. Granted that systematic social science research in this area is still in its formative stages, what directions can we expect it to take, and what are some of the obstacles to empirical theory-building in the field which will have to be surmounted?
