Vulnerability between disability and international protection: some hypotheses on the relational role of emotions in institutions

Abstract

This article is about vulnerability in connection with two specific contexts and practices, that of disability and that of migration, particularly international protection. The main thesis is that the relationship between relationality and vulnerability, especially with reference to emotion understood as a heuristic key, is able to shape the institutions in which it is at work. I will first deal with disability, as a general theme and analytical scenario, in order to show how what arises from it can also be used in the field of international protection. Finally, some reflections will be suggested, focusing on the relationship between emotion and literary-legal imagination.