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Article: Transnational citizenship: multiplicity of rights, responsibilities and opportunities.
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- People and Place
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- December 1, 2006
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Italy's citizenship laws are moving towards jus soli for migrants to Italy and to accommodate dual citizenship for people of Italian origin living abroad. MPs elected from abroad have made Italy governable and fuelled interest in transnational citizenship. This gives social, political and cultural dimensions to the concept of globalisation which has hitherto been dominated by economics. This is a positive change. The only threat to democracy comes not from transnational citizenship but from an excessive concern with the national interest.
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The Italian Government recently introduced urgent changes to its citizenship legislation in order to ...