Given the increasing number of people seeking for international protection – in Europe and in Italy – and consistent with the proliferation of clinical programs in legal education aimed at reducing inequalities in accessing justice, this project explores innovative ways to support asylum seekers in legal settings. It raises the following main question: How can legally vulnerable people [asylum seekers] – those who are silenced, marginalized, or excluded – act successfully within the law and be heard in legal settings? To answer this question, we propose to create an adequate socio-legal means analyzing cases in vivo with the active participation of lay (clients) and expert actors (lawyers, cultural mediators, social workers and decision makers) in order to promote new collaborative practices of storytelling and listening for clients and legal professionals. We will structure the project in two phases. Firstly, building on current clinical research, we will construct an innovative theoretical and methodological path for case analysis based not only on legal materials but also on clients’ story (empirical approach), thereby bridging legal and personal storytelling. The aim is to understand the difficulty to move from an everyday life story to a legal story for people which are not familiar with our cultural and legal systems. Secondly, with the collaboration of professionals, we will create a socio-clinical framework shared by both clients and expert actors, with the aim of increasing legal knowledge and awareness about how the law operates in specific legal contexts. The results of the research (legal and empirical) will provide valuable epistemological and methodological insights into the development of new collaborative practices for fact-acquiring and story construction, whose aim is to make justice accessible for vulnerable clients both in the field of international protection and in others. The added value of this scientific proposal lies in the rigorous use of an interdisciplinary approach, rooted in socio-legal studies and the humanities, to study the law in action.
CLINAPP (A Clinical Narrative Approach to Support Asylum Seekers in International Protection Procedures) / DI DONATO, Flora. - (2020). (Intervento presentato al convegno CLINAPP (A Clinical Narrative Approach to Support Asylum Seekers in International Protection Procedures). nel 1° gennaio 2021).
CLINAPP (A Clinical Narrative Approach to Support Asylum Seekers in International Protection Procedures).
Di Donato Flora
2020
Abstract
Given the increasing number of people seeking for international protection – in Europe and in Italy – and consistent with the proliferation of clinical programs in legal education aimed at reducing inequalities in accessing justice, this project explores innovative ways to support asylum seekers in legal settings. It raises the following main question: How can legally vulnerable people [asylum seekers] – those who are silenced, marginalized, or excluded – act successfully within the law and be heard in legal settings? To answer this question, we propose to create an adequate socio-legal means analyzing cases in vivo with the active participation of lay (clients) and expert actors (lawyers, cultural mediators, social workers and decision makers) in order to promote new collaborative practices of storytelling and listening for clients and legal professionals. We will structure the project in two phases. Firstly, building on current clinical research, we will construct an innovative theoretical and methodological path for case analysis based not only on legal materials but also on clients’ story (empirical approach), thereby bridging legal and personal storytelling. The aim is to understand the difficulty to move from an everyday life story to a legal story for people which are not familiar with our cultural and legal systems. Secondly, with the collaboration of professionals, we will create a socio-clinical framework shared by both clients and expert actors, with the aim of increasing legal knowledge and awareness about how the law operates in specific legal contexts. The results of the research (legal and empirical) will provide valuable epistemological and methodological insights into the development of new collaborative practices for fact-acquiring and story construction, whose aim is to make justice accessible for vulnerable clients both in the field of international protection and in others. The added value of this scientific proposal lies in the rigorous use of an interdisciplinary approach, rooted in socio-legal studies and the humanities, to study the law in action.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
