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The Prodi government's proposed citizenship reform, and the debate on immigration and its impact in Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Giulia Bigot  and
Stefano Fella
Giulia Bigot
Affiliation:
University of Trento, Italy
Stefano Fella*
Affiliation:
London Metropolitan University, UK
*
∗Corresponding author. Email: stefanofella@gmail.com
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Abstract

Within a few months of the second Prodi government taking office in 2006, the Interior Minister, Giuliano Amato, reignited the ongoing debate on immigration, social integration, nationality and citizenship in Italy by launching the government's proposed reform of the law on citizenship. This article examines the implications of the reform and the debate it has provoked among the political parties in Italy in the context of the broader political discussion that has developed in Italy since the 1990s regarding immigration control, social integration and multiculturalism. The article sheds light on the way in which themes such as ‘multiculturalism’, ‘integration’ and ‘citizenship’ are conceptualised by political actors in Italy, and the way in which discussion of these themes relates to the broader political strategies and trajectories followed by these actors.

Keywords

Italyimmigrationcitizenshipsocial integrationpopulism
Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Italy , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , August 2008 , pp. 305 - 315
Copyright
Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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