Abstract
This study has two objectives. The first one is to show how immigration has played a significant role in the demographic growth observed for the medium size cities in the period 1980/91. The intention is to evaluate the importance of these cities as alternative places to locate the flow of persons that otherwise would choose to live in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The results obtained in this study confirm this expected performance. The second objective is to compare how immigrants were absorbed in the labor market of these metropolitan regions and intermediate size cities. Data show that metropolitan regions were able to offer better conditions to their immigrants, what can explain the importance of these areas as the preferred destination of these flows, weaking the significant importance shown by the medium cities as the locational choice.
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