DISCURSOS Y POLÍTICAS DE INMIGRACIÓN EN SUDAMÉRICA: ¿HACÍA UN NUEVO PARADIGMA O LA CONFIRMACIÓN DE UNA RETÓRICA SIN CONTENIDO?

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, w...