This essay will examine the citizenship laws of Italy due to the exclusion they have of the children of migrants. Foremost, I discuss the principles of citizenship through establishing what jus sanguinis and jus soli are, and give examples of countries that have laws based on these. Subsequently, I explain how Italy uses jus sanguinis as its basis for its own citizenship laws. However, because of being based on jus sanguinis, migrants and their children are excluded. Therefore, I then use the film 18 Jus Soli: The Right to Citizenship in Italy, which documents those excluded from Italian citizenship in my analysis of these laws. I examine this phenomenon through the lens of three theories, those being about cosmopolitanism, economics, and politics
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The authors of Take back the Economy: An Ethical Guide For Transforming Our Communities state that humans “have lost, and maybe never had, a moral compass to guide economic actions” today and throughout history (Gibson-Graham et al 2013). These authors would argue, in a way similar to cosmopolitans, that humans are morally obligated to change the way we run our economy. A way to change the economy, would be to allow the migrants to have citizenship rights. According to 18 Jus Soli, these migrants face uncertainty about their future. If they do any sort of crime, knowingly or unknowingly, they can be deported. They can be deported from the country at anytime if they become an illegal alien (Kuwornu 2011). If they have citizenship rights, then these youths would have more access to education, finances for funding that education, and employment opportunities. There would also be the increased tax revenue for the government from increase in people paying those taxes. There would be less unemployment in the …show more content…
The children of migrants to Italy are among those excluded from citizenship. They have to go through long legal processes to maintain their permanent residency status, or through immigration to get citizenship. They are raised in Italy and have Italian friends, but are not seen as Italian themselves (Kuwornu 2011). Cosmopolitans see this as morally wrong because it against their views that humans have a duty to help one another, and to recognize that there are others who are worse off then us (Nussbaum 1994). A critique of cosmopolitanism would reply that cosmopolitans are idealists when the world should be realist. It is unrealistic to let everyone into Italy for citizenship (Calhoun 2003). An economist would argue for the economic benefits of an additional workforce and tax revenue for the migrant children would bring in as citizens. It is also our responsibility to transform the economy to being more ethical, and giving citizenship to these youths would do that (Gibson-Graham et al 2013). Asylum seekers in France face similar exclusion, and are denied asylum based on arbitrary medical grounds (Ticktin 2011). By being of Italian descent, I am able to get citizneship faster than the children in the film. It is morally and economically wrong to exclude these migrant children from
The authors of Take back the Economy: An Ethical Guide For Transforming Our Communities state that humans “have lost, and maybe never had, a moral compass to guide economic actions” today and throughout history (Gibson-Graham et al 2013). These authors would argue, in a way similar to cosmopolitans, that humans are morally obligated to change the way we run our economy. A way to change the economy, would be to allow the migrants to have citizenship rights. According to 18 Jus Soli, these migrants face uncertainty about their future. If they do any sort of crime, knowingly or unknowingly, they can be deported. They can be deported from the country at anytime if they become an illegal alien (Kuwornu 2011). If they have citizenship rights, then these youths would have more access to education, finances for funding that education, and employment opportunities. There would also be the increased tax revenue for the government from increase in people paying those taxes. There would be less unemployment in the …show more content…
The children of migrants to Italy are among those excluded from citizenship. They have to go through long legal processes to maintain their permanent residency status, or through immigration to get citizenship. They are raised in Italy and have Italian friends, but are not seen as Italian themselves (Kuwornu 2011). Cosmopolitans see this as morally wrong because it against their views that humans have a duty to help one another, and to recognize that there are others who are worse off then us (Nussbaum 1994). A critique of cosmopolitanism would reply that cosmopolitans are idealists when the world should be realist. It is unrealistic to let everyone into Italy for citizenship (Calhoun 2003). An economist would argue for the economic benefits of an additional workforce and tax revenue for the migrant children would bring in as citizens. It is also our responsibility to transform the economy to being more ethical, and giving citizenship to these youths would do that (Gibson-Graham et al 2013). Asylum seekers in France face similar exclusion, and are denied asylum based on arbitrary medical grounds (Ticktin 2011). By being of Italian descent, I am able to get citizneship faster than the children in the film. It is morally and economically wrong to exclude these migrant children from