Let's vote in the referendums to save migrants from the fury of the sovereignists

One of the referendums that will take place on June 8 and 9 concerns migrants. In particular, it concerns those migrants who are citizens but are not citizens. They live here in Italy, have had children in Italy, speak Italian, pay taxes in Italy, work in Italy but are not Italian citizens. They are part of a real “caste”, or rather “outcaste” – in the Indian sense of the word – that is, the “caste” of the excluded. In India, before the castes were abolished, these people were called “dalit”, or “pariah”, and were citizens without rights. In 1947, President Nehru, a few months after gaining independence from England, proclaimed the abolition of the castes, and at least formally restored the rights and dignity of the dalits.

The citizenship referendum is designed to halve the waiting time for migrants to obtain the right to become citizens and escape from the domination of Italians by birth. It is essentially a simple and far from revolutionary act of affirmation of the rule of law. It would be nice if all political parties said yes to this referendum. Without dividing themselves. Simply to allow the implementation of the constitutional principles and those written in the Charter of Human Rights (approved in 1948) and gradually signed by almost all the countries in the world. Instead, the xenophobic and racist drive of the sovereignists (Italian and European) prevailed. Even the moderate parties chose to submit to the sovereignist and ultranationalist ideas, and only a part of the left remained to defend an essential principle of the Enlightenment and Christian civilization.

Even among the Five Star Movement there is resistance. Fortunately, Giuseppe Conte has announced that he will vote in favor, but he has left his party free to choose. The right is united in a position that hopes that the referendum fails. The direction that immigration policy in Italy will take will largely depend on the outcome of this referendum. If it wins the referendum, or even if it obtains a high percentage of participation, it is possible that the government will temper the xenophobic and authoritarian choices it has made up to now. That it will “ de-vannaccize” and accept at least in part the pressures that come from a part of the left and from the Church. If, on the other hand, the referendum is heavily defeated, Italy will continue to slide towards xenophobic positions and formally legalize racism.

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Piero Sansonetti