Our association takes a stand: for rights, for equality, for integration while respecting diversity.
about Us
We are a social promotion association founded in 1990 by a group of lawyers, legal experts, and scholars specializing in immigration, asylum, and citizenship. We participate in and organize research, studies, and training courses to raise awareness and skills, promoting a culture of integration across the region through the protection of rights. We develop advocacy actions to change discriminatory laws that conflict with our Constitution and the international conventions Italy has signed. We expose and combat rights violations through strategic litigation.
Mission
Protecting and promoting the equality and human rights of foreign individuals is our primary goal. Our work focuses on areas where fundamental rights, freedom of movement, and the right to asylum are violated or compromised. Alongside our efforts in Italy, we operate on a transnational level, collaborating with other organizations through strategic litigation before European and international courts, developing projects with a specific Euro-Mediterranean focus, and maintaining particular attention to violations at internal and external borders as well as in hotspots.
Publications in English
The report provides an overview of key changes in the national asylum system that occurred in 2023 and early 2024 with regard to the asylum procedure, reception conditions, and the administrative detention of asylum seekers, refugees and unaccompanied minors.
A practical guide to legal means and advocacy tools for criminalized Human Rights Defenders in Europe.
Informations on administrative and criminal regulations, and immigration law, aimed at foreign nationals deprived of their personal freedom and those working in detention facilities.
A handbook for who needs to answer o to face directly legal, bureaucratic, and administrative questions related to migration phenomenon.
The report highlights legal actions undertaken as part of ASGI’s Sciabaca & Oruka project to challenge Italian policies that support mobility restrictions in Tunisia
A practical support to obtain a passport and other key consular attestations necessary for the purpose of applying, renewing or converting a residence permit.
Available in Italian, English, and Bengali, the guide explains how to correct incorrect information in a Bangladeshi passport and how to apply for the National Identity Card through the Embassy in Rome or the Consulate in Milan.
The final report of the L.A.W. Project – Leverage the Access to Welfare outlines the causes and effects of institutional discrimination, aiming to identify them and provide tools to combat them.
We addressed the most frequently asked questions received by the anti-discrimination service concerning access to welfare.
The impact of border externalization policies in Senegal and Mauritania, focusing on the negotiations for a status agreement with Frontex and the dynamics of the Atlantic Route.
projects
InLimine is a project addressing issues relating to borders control and access to international protection. The project aims to build up strategies to report and fight policies and practices that infringe rights and freedoms of foreign nationals arriving in Italy.
Medea is a strategic action based on field research, strategic litigation and advocacy aimed at defending the rights of foreign nationals arriving in Italy through internal borders and the Balkan route.
The project aims to contest national, European and international policies that have been designed with the objective of restraining the freedom of movement of non-European citizens and the right to asylum.
Since 2023, the initiative Against Unlawful Practices has been promoting actions aimed at addressing the unlawful practices of police headquarters (Questure) and prefectures that hinder the exercise of fundamental rights for foreign individuals.
Since 2008, ASGI has been promoting a legal support and monitoring service to combat ethnic, racial, and religious discrimination in Italy. The Anti-discrimination Service operates through a central coordination office based in Milan, several regional branches, and a network of professionals across the country.
Over time, the Anti-Discrimination Service has been supported by the Open Society Institute Foundation, Otto per Mille of the Waldensian Church, Charlemagne Foundation, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust.
Since 2019, ASGI has been promoting an orientation and legal counseling service for foreign individuals and those working with foreign clients to provide support in procedures for obtaining passports. Additionally, the Passport Service includes updates to the guide dedicated to passport issuance procedures, featuring detailed sheets with useful information for contacting consular authorities of various countries and a specific guide for correcting passport information for Bangladeshi citizens.
The Passport Service is supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
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Legal strategies to combat externalisation policies
The ASGI report, edited by the Sciabaca & Oruka project, detailing legal disputes arising from Italian-Tunisian cooperation on migration, is published in four languages. Cooperation …
July 11 – Restrictions on mobility in Tunisia: litigation experiences
In Tunisia, as well as in Libya, policies financed and endorsed by Italy and the European Union to control mobility lead to severe violations of …
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La Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo nasce per favorire lo sviluppo culturale, civile ed economico.
