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Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration – ASGI

Torino, Italy
Joined February 2017

ASGI is a membership-based association of lawyers, professors and activists focusing on all legal aspects of immigration, citizenship, statelessness and discrimination.

Presence in: Italy
Focus: Citizenship & Identification, Other, Right to Information

The Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) is a membership-based association focusing on all legal aspects of immigration. As a pool of lawyers, academics, consultants and civil society representatives, ASGI’s expertise relates to various areas of immigration and migrants’ rights, including but not limited to antidiscrimination and xenophobia, children’s and  unaccompanied minors’ rights, asylum and refugee seekers, statelessness and citizenship.

ASGI’s members provide their contribution at various levels: administrative, policy-making and legal, both in national and European contexts.

ASGI implemented the OUT OF LIMBO in partnership with Associazione 21 Luglio and Fondazione Romanì and supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations, aimed to change the policies, regulations and practices that perpetuate the lack of a legal status by undocumented and stateless migrants of Roma origin in Italy, by:

– strengthening the legal competences and advocacy capacity of Roma and non Roma practitioners working with Roma communities and their links with expert lawyers, so that they can play the role of “community-based paralegals”;
– building a national network of Roma and non Roma “community-based paralegals”;
– promoting strategic litigations on this issue; d) promoting evidence-based advocacy at local and national level;
– increasing the visibility of the issue on traditional and social media, in order to build the consensus on the need for change.