Movement wants the end of the Salvini Decree, which extended the term of Italian citizenship through naturalization to 4 years
The "Italians without citizenship” restart the engines. Or rather, they never turned them off. The movement of sons and daughters of immigrants has been committed for years to a reform that fights for the end of citizenship jus sanguinis – through blood law – to introduce into Italy the so-called ius culture and – knowledge of the local culture – to obtain the tricolor passport.
But for now, they have not been heard. Today, they return to the squares to fight against the Decree-Law on Security and Immigrationwhich extended to four years the time required – and the bureaucracy – to obtain Italian citizenship through naturalization.
The rights of one million children, born or raised in Italy, of foreign parents are at stake.
The appeal of the movement
This week, the group “Italians without citizenship"He took to the stage in Piazza San Giovanni, in Rome, to protest."
“We are more than a million young people and children who grew up in Italy, but who have not yet seen their identity recognized. We are prisoners of the current law of 1991 and 1992 that regulates the granting of citizenship, an old law, incapable of responding to the needs of a society that has changed profoundly since the 90s”, said Jovana Kuzman, one of the leaders of the movement.
According to her, after living in Italy for 20 years, she still needs to ask for permission to stay in the country she considers her home. “Without citizenship, we do not exist: we cannot vote, we cannot freely choose which jobs to have and we lose many opportunities to study abroad,” she said.
The group calls for the end of the Decree-Law established by the former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini (from the League), in 2018. “As a movement, we ask, first of all, that you revoke the security decrees. Starting with the topic of citizenship. It is a shame that, according to the security decree, we have to wait another 4 years just to practice citizenship or be second class citizens because our citizenship has become revocable”, said Jovana.
According to the group, the practices should last a maximum of one year, as in other European countries.
""We ask that the four-year duration of procedures for accessing Italian citizenship, a shameful period established in 2018 by Salvini's first decree, be reduced to one year, as is already the case in other European countries," the group wrote in a manifesto.
According to the movement's dossier in Spain, for example, the maximum wait for submitting the application, by law, is one year and they are trying to reduce it even further; in Belgium and Great Britain, practices last 6 months.”
The reduction in the deadline proposed by the group is in line with the wishes of the current Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, which studies the return of 4 to 2 years for the process of granting citizenship, including for spouses of Italians, the so-called citizenship by marriage.
understand the differences
The "the right of blood" or "jus sanguinis” is the blood right in which the person, whose ancestors were born in Italy, has been considered Italian since his birth.
In the “ius soli”, original nationality is obtained by virtue of the territory where the individual was born. Therefore, the nationality of the parents does not matter.
Already the "jus culturae" allows foreigners to become citizens by demonstrating knowledge of local culture.
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With information La Repubblica
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