Urban economics of migration in the cities of the northeast region of Brazil

The focus of this text is to discuss how geographical science can contribute to an understanding of international migration in the 21st century. To this end, in the introduction we present the central ideas, as well as the internal structure of the text. Then, we present the theoretical and methodological approach that guides the research and, in section three, we show the results through texts and cartograms based on secondary data and empirical information. Finally, in the final remarks, we summarize the text with a view to contributing to the proposed debate.