23.05.2023, Internazionale

Lawyers' networks emerge in Europe to defend migrants

A few years ago, at the end of an interview on the Pact on Migration and Asylum presented by the European Commission, Italian lawyer Anna Brambilla had launched a proposal: 'Let's found the Gtmaaf: transnational mutual aid group for frustrated lawyers'. [...] the idea of Brambilla, a member of the Association for Legal Studies on Immigration (Asgi), arose from an observation: in a European context increasingly hostile to migrants,[...] defending migrants' rights had become an almost impossible mission, a profession discredited by governments waving the bogeyman of 'activist lawyers'. read more

Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano
Region(s): Italien / Malta