For two summer in high school, Nuragazoui had an internship on the Legria River coast at the city hall of his hometown, instead of joining a classmate on the beach.
However, when I tried to apply for a job there at the age of 19, she felt she was ineligible. Because, like hundreds of thousands of children born to Italian immigrants, she couldn't get Italian citizenship.
“I feel Italian, I have a dream in Italian in Italian,” Gazui said in Italian accented by Legrian. “But I'm not recognized in my country.”
For generations, European countries have mainly decided on citizenship using pedigree. The United States was a west exception as one of the last countries that happened to everyone unconditionally acknowledged citizenship.
President Trump's order to end its citizenship for a child born in the United States, an unprecedented immigration that was temporarily prevented by the judge last week, stepping the United States one step closer to Italy and other European countries. Sho.
However, as the number of American and European immigrants is increasing, we have begun discussions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean on whether it is necessary to update the system to award citizenship in some way.
There are critics in the Latin “JUS SANGUINIS”, blood rights, “JUS SOLI”, or soil rights, or soil rights, and more and more countries should re -adjust the two. I am.
Since the 1980s, Britain and Ireland (and Australia and New Zealand) have still had unconditional unconditional livelihood citizens, but have moved in the same direction as Trump's restricting it.
But, like Germany, others are reversed, making it easier for people born from immigrants to acquire citizenship. Supporters say one in four has nodded to the changing reality of the country that is currently coming from the immigration background.
“Citizenship is a political issue,” said Maarten Vink, a joint director of the Global Citizenship Observatory. “When it changes, it reflects the results of political struggles.”
European tug of war
In Europe, Bloodline Citizen's Rights has helped to maintain the relationship between the citizens leaving the country and their offspring. However, most countries in Europe provide some form of luxury citizenship, but usually has a strict restriction.
In Europe, citizenship is a dangerous concept of racism and purity of racism and the purity of racism and ethnic in the Nazi era, especially in the colonial and Nazi era, when Hitler's administration stripped their citizenship before killing them. It was sometimes mixed.
Today, it is not only found on the right end of the immigration to restrict immigration access to citizenship and securing borders. However, this debate is used by part of the extreme right -wing army of the continent, which talks about the need to maintain cultural and ethnic identity.
“We must stop the bird's flow,” said Jordan Badelela, President of the French far right national rally. “Even in immigration descent, many French people do not recognize France and no longer recognize the countries they grew up.”
Bardella's party wants to abolish laws that allow domestic foreign children to apply for citizenship at the age of 18, as long as they meet the minimum living requirements.
Citizenship is often explained as a means of belonging, but it was also a powerful way to eliminate, and Dimitical Kochenov, a professor at Central Europe and the author of the Citizens Rights, said.
“Citizens have been used by state to slander certain groups,” said Kochenov.
Example of Italy
In the past few centuries, much poorer Italy was a country where millions of citizens have moved to the United States in search of a better life. The generous pedigree citizens' rules helped Italy to maintain the connection with Diaspora.
Even today, churches and city halls around Italy are packed with the demands of Argentina, Brazilians and Americans who have the right to claim citizenship through distant Italian ancestors. (Recently, Argentina's President Javier Myl has won the Italian citizenship.)
However, Italy has recently changed from a land where people have emigrated to land where many immigrants receive many immigrants. And although Italy has changed, the Citizenship Law has not changed.
Italy does not give citizenship to immigrants in Japan in Japan. Immigration Italy -born children can apply for citizenship when they are 18. They have a year to apply, and they must prove that they have lived in Italy.
It excluded Gazoui, who spent some of his childhood in Morocco, where her parents are, in Morocco. Currently, 34, an employee of a company that provides the Navy, has an Italian husband and an Italian child, and applied for citizenship based on long -term residence in Japan.
“I am the only person who is not in the house, not the Italian in the house,” she said.
The Italian public health system does not distinguish between citizens and non -citizens, but the second -generation children of immigrants face many hurdles. Approximately 600,000 children born for immigrants are studying at schools in Italy. They often did not know the countries other than Italy, but their lives were complicated because they did not claim citizenship.
Many people cannot travel to Europe on school, missing schools and renewing their permission. They also say they always remember that they are different from classmates. Many Italy -born adults are in the same situation.
“Unstable will be the basis of your life,” said Sunny Olmati, 38, who is a dancer and choreographer born to Nigeria's parents in Rome and has no Italian citizenship. I did it. “You create a sense of no existence.”
Italian leaders support the current law. “Italy has a great citizenship law,” said the hardline conservatives, who have the roots of the Italian brothers, said that Italy has a great citizenship law.
Meloni is convenient to connect the child's citizenship with their parents' citizenship in case the immigrant returns to their country. She also stated that the priority was higher than changing the Citizenship Law.
Despite the government's standpoint, the grassroots association proposed a referendum in Italy, which would have to be 10 to 5 to 5 years. Voting will be held in the spring.
“The law is no longer a real Italian,” said Case, a 27 -year -old Secretary of Congi, a leading group of the new Italian generation. “It's completely outdated.”
Contemporary biopsy?
Some critics have said about the same thing about unconditional biological rights citizenship.
About 20 % use it in North America and South America. The United States and Canada have inherited the law from the UK, but the Professional Citizens have played an important role in a new and independent country as a way to make a nation.
Like those who like Bloodline citizenship, defenders in the right to grow, because they have not excluded their children for another reason.
In the United States, the 14th amendment has made African men and women become citizens, and millions of Irish, Germany and other European immigrants have become citizens.
However, unconditional livelihood citizenship is still an exception.
“In a large -scale migration and irregular immigration world, unconditional Jus Soli is anachronistic,” said Christian Jopke, a professor at the University of Bern's sociology.
Nevertheless, some claim that the Trump administration is trying to redefine the nation itself, not to modernize the law.
“It refuses American ideas as an immigrant country,” said Motomura, an immigrant and citizenship expert at the Los Angeles Law of the University of California.
Under the current rules of the United States, the degree of gorgeous citizenship is not absolute. For example, children of diplomat born in the United States are excluded. And most children of American citizens born overseas maintain automatic rights for US citizenship.
“This is a really good way to connect with people living outside the state border,” said Vin. “However, if you want to make sure that it is also comprehensive at the border of the country, you need the right to live on territory.”
Otherwise, he said that the country had millions of people in non -citizens.
“It's not a good principle in democracy,” he said.
Christopher F. Seweletle Contributed from Berlin's report Aurelien Breeden From Paris.
