Abstract

The article proposes some international protection cases respectively resolved by a Territorial Commission, a Court of Appeal and a lawyer based in Naples. Reflecting on these cases, the author proposes what he calls «narrative institutionalism»: according to his theoretical hypothesis, while the institution drives and contains the narrative of asylum seekers, this narrative maintains a vitality that cannot be reduced to institutional logics. The kind of institutionalism proposed is also characterized in an intercultural sense. At the end of the analysis, the article provides some clinical-pedagogical inputs