ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the gap between the spontaneous story and the legal story increased when the protagonist is a foreigner. It focuses on two cases of clients in situations of vulnerability: Amenze and Margaret, who came to Italy from Nigeria, the first to escape from a forced marriage and the second to break free of forms of sexual exploitation. The chapter illustrates what vulnerability consists of in these specific cases, that of clients coming from a cultural context that is very far from guaranteeing human rights and gender identity. One of the elements in common to these two stories is the fact that responsibility for protecting the clients legally and socially was taken on by a lawyer who is active in defending the rights of foreigners and by social workers committed to the anti-trafficking programme in Campania. The chapter discusses the possibility of making use of storytelling as an effective tool of client empowerment.
