Marion Bouchetel

Marion is a qualified lawyer, advocate and researcher working at the intersection of migration, asylum and international human rights law. Since 2017, she has been engaged in legal and advocacy work at the Greek–Turkish border, particularly on Lesvos, alongside legal aid organisations and solidarity networks defending migrants' rights and resisting the effects of European borders and containment policies.

Her work focuses on challenging border violence, including refoulement practices, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, camp conditions and the criminalisation of migration in Greece and across Europe. She has contributed to the monitoring of systemic human rights violations against people on the move and to collective efforts aimed at challenging impunity, in particular in the Greek islands' EU hotspots.

Marion has been involved in litigation and advocacy efforts before Greek courts, the European Court of Human Rights, United Nations Treaty Bodies, and national and European oversight mechanisms, representing asylum seekers and refugees subjected to discrimination, inhuman or degrading treatment and violence while in Europe.

Alongside her legal work, she has contributed to reports, expert opinions and collaborative research projects examining border externalisation, shrinking civic space and the increasingly racist and punitive dimensions of European migration policies. She has also participated in human rights fact-finding and trial observation missions in several countries focusing on state violence, repression and the criminalisation of dissent and solidarity practices.

Since 2025, she collaborates as a legal researcher with different universities and initiatives, such as the Liminality Research Consortium (Gender Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute) and the University of Durham (Contesting Migration Project), focusing on the rights of migrants at risk based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC), as well as on the criminalisation/regulation migration-related mobilisation and civil society.