On 8 and 9 June the Italians will be called to the polls for one referendum To give their opinion about the five questions, four at work and one on Italian citizenship And about halving the time of stay for foreign people who want to ask. With reference to the latter, to date The path to get it takes place in many cases after a long and winding bureaucratic pathOf which we often do not fully know the daily implications, which not only influence adults, but also minors.
The law currently offers one of the requirements to submit an application, a house without interruptions of ten years in Italy (that is then the point that is touched by referendum: If only five were needed). But that is why, in order to better understand the question, it makes sense to ask: what cannot do Who doesn’t have Italian citizenship? How is your life different?
“In addition to not being able to vote and be chosen, so that they do not have the so -called political rights, there are limitations in freedom of circulation – explains to Waded Giulia Perin, ASGI lawyer (Association for Legal Studies on immigration) -. First, as is known, to obtain an Italian passport, ensures a considerable freedom of movement in the world and in particular in Europe: foreigners who do not have permission in Italy to extend their stay and during the waiting time are very limited in their movements abroad. It is therefore possible that, given the often excessive workloads that have to manage immigration offices compared to the staff they have, The renewal times of the documents are very dilated, even yearsAnd if there is a work obligation abroad at that time or a school trip of the child in a country other than Italy, these people are actually blocked on our territory because their identity card is not valid for expatriation. Italian citizens can then ask for reunification with categories of family members that a foreigner, even if he has lived in our country for years, cannot hope to have with him in Italy. “
But they are not the only limits: “A minor boy from a family who has not yet obtained any citizenship could not represent Italy for sports competitions, even if he was born here – adds Perin -. Then there are often something Limits in participation in public competitionsAnd foreign citizens cannot work in some precise contexts that relate to, for example, Defense and Public Safety “
The boundaries lived on someone’s skin
All this concerns adults, as well as the minor children of parents still without Italian citizenship. A situation that often forces an area of an exorcity compared to a country in which it was born and grown instead and that you feel that you hear. This is the case of Sepphani Maddage, a 21 -year -old university student and an activist of an association “On the right side of the story”who was born in Italy and saw citizenship recognized by his original parents of Sri Lanka when he was 17 years old: “I am lucky because when I was born in Italy, I could still ask at the age of 18, because I had always lived here, in a country in the Marche – He tells one Waded -. On different occasions in my life I felt different from my classmates, but there is an episode that still makes me suffer when I think about it: I have always been to the best in the class and in the third class there was the opportunity to study in London for a period. Unfortunately, the request of the visa with my documents of that time was, however, incompatible with the times before departure. Because of this I felt strange in the country that I considered my house “.
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