Migrations reveal several features of the social, political, cultural and symbolical reality of the globalized world. From a purely political point-of-view they touch a raw nerve of liberal democracies: the tension existing between the adherence to the universal values of liberalism and the democratic sovereign's discretion concerning admission policies.Such tension seems to make any commitment in favour of migrant’s human rights unrealistic.The present article supports the argument that only the harmonization of migration policies that implies a cooperative and multilateral approach between the involved states can make the mobility practices carried out by they who try to cross their boundaries less dramatic.
