WHen I first moved to Italy in 2012, I didn’t know more than a decade later I was here. In the past, that British had the luxury of the EU citizenship, and thus did not prevent things. I enjoyed the prospect of spending time in a country I was always impressed with, and that’s that. And yet, post-brexit, I’m here yet. ITALY my house. Here’s my community and I make my career here. I told the language language, and I developed in hand movements. Political, I live with seven prime ministers – from Mario Monti to Giorgia Meloni – However, sad, something I have never done, in these years, voting an election.
This week, Italians Join a regendum That includes a suggestion to deprive time of legal residency required for foreign strangers of non EU to apply for Italy’s citizenship, from 10 to five years. .
Some of my neighbors faced worse obstacles. I recently attended the Italians with no citizenship activity; This grassroots organization has a major role in gathering between the million signatures last year, needed to hide Parliament and put this question in the hands of people. Sonny, a 38-year-old man born in Italy of a Nigerian mother, told the little crowd waiting for citizenship, because some important documents were sent to the wrong address. Benedicta, whose parents were from Ghana, explained that he had recently gained citizenship after 17 years of bitter struggle. Estimated that As many as 1.4 million people, including 284,000 minors, live in similar limbo states, their paths leading to clerical errors, insufficient barriers.
The fact that this referendum has happened to everyone So something in a miracle. During the past three decades, the State of Italian raises citizenship rules to smaller and fewer qualified. And political air is still very strong in that direction. Last year, a broad coalition of parties passed a suggestion to introduce a so-called Correct to School The reform, which automatically broadens the citizenship of foreign nationalists completing a school cycle. Meloni’s Government easily hit their efforts. And only weeks ago, his administration Is a law To avoid foreigners from acquiring Italian citizenship by genealogy by their grandparents.
To close the walls, this vote on the weekend is a rare opportunity for italians to make the country bureaucracy better. But there are also cultural implications. The citizens are asked to go to polls to make a statement about their own identity and, we face it, that knowingly, like any national identity, often contaminated with fatigue. The Best of Monelii White, heterosexual, “native” Christian families In other Italians, and millions support him. However similar exclusion logic continues, in more subtle shapes, more than a distance right. Remove the Sweet life Reverie with clean youths wearing clothes designing vespas and eating pizza and pasta at family-driven restaurants. How is the frustration, is it true, is this widespread fantasy fantasy in a country that is often frozen in the 1950s, that foreign and italians are the same as the likes?
Don’t miss me, I love old movies and nostalgic care of the day like next italophile. But focusing on traditional identity is too easy to feed a desire for ethnic and cultural experiences with people. Where is the Olympic Volleyball Gold Medic Winners Paola Egonuu and Myriam Sylla that suits this national story, for example? The two of the ancestral ancestors, both, undeniable, national heroes, however struggling UNTO gain citizenship And both faced discrimination since doing so. O What about Khaby Lame, most of the most people followed by the world, however, even living in Italy because he was one, Got the goodness of 2022More than 20 years ago? These are high-profile cases. By relaxing the rules of naturalization, italians can recognize dignity and diversity of millions of necessary stories in the process. Certainly this is an opportunity for all involved?
Meloni and his partners are not seen so. Last week the Prime Minister declares that he “does not collect” a referendum’s ballot, and many people “lead to the coast” that the referendum would not reach the quorum and that the organizers were ashamed of their efforts.
As an incoming citizen, even at the moment there is no voice, I cross my fingers sufficient to meet the necessary common sense and civic duty to at least show. Out of politics, it is an opportunity for the privilege of voting right to prove that they have very much about the future of Italy I am as many as my companion migranties.
