Lavoro presentato durante incontro Comenius

1. What is
globalization?
The term Globalization refers to the processes of
international integration arising from the interchange
of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects
of culture. Advances in transports and telecommunication,
in particular the Internet, are major factors in
globalization, generating further interdependence of
economic and cultural activities.

2. What are the effects of
globalization on Economics
and Politics?
…but now let’s discover…

3. We are going to analyze them
according to these four points
Civil rights
citizenshipimmigration
“ius soli”

4. Civil rights
Human rights are a major dimension of
normative globalization. How governments
everywhere should behave towards their
residents is prescribed in general terms by
human rights, which rely on global
communication systems to acquire and
distribute information.

5. Moreover, human rights advocates rely on
economic globalization, i.e. the fact that nearly
all countries are involved in world trade and
investment, to use economic incentives in
order to push countries towards compliance
with human rights norms.

6. Citizenship
Nowadays it seems that the word
“citizenship” doesn’t mean being part
of a nation anymore, since sovereignty
and territoriality aren’t identifier
elements of a state, which is almost
considered an open entity.

7. In fact, rights are gradually losing their
feature of national individualism, stretching
out towards a more universal model. For
instance, people working abroad should
benefit from the same rights granted to all
the citizens of the hosting state.

8. Immigration
Today immigration has become a global phenomenon.
In Europe there are more than 41 millions of immigrants
with regular documents, whose majority lives in Spain,
Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. Reasons for
immigration can be of different kinds:
 Economical
 Working
 Political
 Religious
 Personal
 Criminal

9. In Italy, about 8% of the
total population is
composed by immigrants.
They come from Central
and Eastern Europe,
Asia, Africa, South
America and Oceania.
But the largest number
of immigrants comes
from Romania, followed
by Morocco.
In particular, here in
Sicily this is a hot topic
since more and more
people reach Lampedusa
every day travelling in
terrible conditions.

10. This graphic shows the trend of resident
population of foreign citizenship in Sicily

11. “Ius soli”
Jus soli (Latin: right of the soil), is the
right to nationality or citizenship of
anyone born in the territory of a state.

12. No European country grants unconditional
birthright citizenship. In Italy ‘jus soli’ is
applied in two cases:
•for children whose
parents can’t transmit
their citizenship
according to the laws of
their country of origin
• if the subject is the
child of unknown
parents and is found
within Italian territory.

13. There is an important and very frequent indirect
application: in fact, the foreign citizen who is born
in Italy and has constantly maintained his residence
from the birth, has the faculty, after being 18 years
old, to ask and obtain, even without the required
conditions, Italian citizenship.
Ius soli in Italy
“the right to be Italian”

14. Maria Claudia Aragona
Alessandra Criscuolo
Graziella Ficarra
Ivana Gullì
When immigrants’ parents follow a path of
integration, their children can obtain citizenship, or
if children arrive in Italy, they can “become”
Italians after achieving some education. Italy is
going more and more towards this; the mere fact
of coming here is not enough to obtain Italian
citizenship.