Citizenship of Birthright? From Bloodline? Migration is complicating both.
For two summers during high school, instead of joining his classmates on the beach, Noura Ghazoui had an internship at the town hall of his hometown, Borghetto Santo Spirito, on the Ligurian coast.But when he tried to request a job at the age of 19, he found himself not admissible because, like hundreds of thousands of children born to immigrants in Italy, he could not have Italian citizenship."I feel Italian, I believe in Italian, dream in Italian," said Mrs. Ghazoui in Italian with Ligurian accent. "But I'm not recognized in my country."For generations, European countries have mainly used blood lines to determine citizenship. The United States were an exception in the West as one of the last countries to grant citizenship unconditionally to practically anyone born there.The order of Pres...