This project falls within the perspective of inquiring about the contemporary issues that directly affect the formation of ethnic communities in urban contexts. The issue being addressed involves an approach that favors characterizing trend research and builds theoretical and methodological reflection about own changes that occur in relation to ethnic communities in urban culture. The approach is related to ethnicity studies related to internal migration phenomena recorded in the context of the city. The theoretical - methodological orientation, guide the inquiry by the Afro-Colombian migration to the city of Pereira in the 80’s, part of a hermeneutic interpretive approach, which is approached from a correlational perspective integrating three categories: Ethnicity , Student Migration and City. The importance of the project lies in providing elements of understanding of the complexities of ethnic communities (especially Afro-Colombians) in their relationships and forms of construction in urban settings, in the case of the city of Pereira. In the developing of the research, there is a commitment to understanding other logic from, which it is possible to read the particular expression of Afro-Colombian in the city of Pereira. With this, the intention was to deep in the ways ethnicity has become Afro Colombian from migration; in the same time, the ways of reading in the contemporary world; key inputs that can be considered in three areas of particular concern to the city of Pereira: the formulation of public policy, ethnic processes and social organization in urban contexts and school projects at the confluence of Afro-Colombian communities.