Abstract
During the last fifteen years, the governmental discourse on immigration from most countries in South America has become more liberal and with a clear emphasis on migrant rights and on the promotion of auniversal human mobility. The present work questions if this liberal political discourse on South American immigration is simply a paradox in which all immigrants are officially welcome, but, at the same time, certain nationalities or categories are rejected, or if, on the contrary, there has actually been a liberal shift in the policies and legislations on immigration in the region, with important comparative consequences and that can serve as an example to other regions of the world.
Keywords
Mercosur Residence Agreemen; European Union; irregular immigration