My proposal for this article is to discuss the free mobility of workers inside the Mercosul block, bearing in mind that this liberty, in the contrary of others issues that arise as essential aims to be reached in the integration process of the region, wasn't incorporated in the Assunção Treaty, signed in march 1991. This absence is revealing in the sense that the liberty of circulation of persons is one of the elements that show with more evidence the existence of an integration process as it affects directly the life of its citizens ensuring their free displacement inside the region and equal opportunities among nationals and no nationals. In the text of the above-mentioned Treaty, integration appears only in reference to the circulation of capital, goods and services, being this liberty safeguarded by the elimination of any obstacle which could damage this road. Enlarging this discussion, I intend to look up what institutional advances has been reached in the course of the process, in the sense of the inclusion of measures which lead to the opening of the borders of Mercosul countries through which its citizens - in our case, the workers - could move with liberty and could live in the place where they work. To discuss this point, I believe that the knowledge of European experience is of great utility.
Mercosul; Regional Integration; Free Circulation of Workers; The Right of Domicile; Fundamental Labor Rights