{"title":"The Use of Medico-Legal Reports in Asylum Processes in Belgium","authors":"Alice Sinon, Julie Lejeune","doi":"10.1163/15718166-12340163","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the asylum processes, medical documents are frequently used to establish a need for international protection. These include medico-legal reports written under the Istanbul Protocol. Their objective is to prove past persecution (e.g. torture) and/or specific vulnerability/ies, which should be taken into account in the procedure as well as in the assessment of the protection needs.</p><p>Firstly, the applicable international and EU legal framework and existing ECtHR case law are briefly analysed. Secondly, a study of Belgian asylum authorities and Courts’ practices, based on the analysis of individual cases, and on interviews carried out with victims of torture, shows that the weight given by asylum authorities to these documents varies. There is a lack of consistency in the practice in particular regarding their probative value. The article analyses in detail trends in the case-law and the reasonings put forward. Lastly, the article discusses how medical documents, by identifying and documenting vulnerabilities, can contribute to the consideration of all vulnerabilities from an intersectional perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":51819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Migration and Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Journal of Migration and Law","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15718166-12340163","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"DEMOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the asylum processes, medical documents are frequently used to establish a need for international protection. These include medico-legal reports written under the Istanbul Protocol. Their objective is to prove past persecution (e.g. torture) and/or specific vulnerability/ies, which should be taken into account in the procedure as well as in the assessment of the protection needs.
Firstly, the applicable international and EU legal framework and existing ECtHR case law are briefly analysed. Secondly, a study of Belgian asylum authorities and Courts’ practices, based on the analysis of individual cases, and on interviews carried out with victims of torture, shows that the weight given by asylum authorities to these documents varies. There is a lack of consistency in the practice in particular regarding their probative value. The article analyses in detail trends in the case-law and the reasonings put forward. Lastly, the article discusses how medical documents, by identifying and documenting vulnerabilities, can contribute to the consideration of all vulnerabilities from an intersectional perspective.
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The European Journal of Migration and Law is a quarterly journal on migration law and policy with specific emphasis on the European Union, the Council of Europe and migration activities within the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. This journal differs from other migration journals by focusing on both the law and policy within the field of migration, as opposed to examining immigration and migration policies from a wholly sociological perspective. The Journal is the initiative of the Centre for Migration Law of the University of Nijmegen, in co-operation with the Brussels-based Migration Policy Group.
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