Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Enrica Asquer
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/304
Language Italian Pages 34 P. 193-226 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC304-oa1
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Through an in-depth analysis of a file on racial ascertainment and contestation of a denaturalization measure, identified in the Demorazza group of records (Central Archives of the State), this article aims to trace the entire dynamics of the naturalization and denaturalization of a “stateless” (first ex-Russian and then ex-Italian) man of Jewish origin in Fascist Italy. The focal point lies in the actions and resources that he himself mobilized to construct and adapt from time to time his public identity to the criteria set by the authorities. The article offers an initial reconstruction of Fascist denaturalization policies. It also highlights the relationship that exists between the affair triggered by the anti-Semitic measure of revocation of citizenship and the previous naturalization process. The latter, as in most cases of revocation produced by the anti-Semitic legislation, took place equally under the Fascist regime, though in a stage prior to the 1936-1938 turn. The article thus questions, from a bottom-up perspective, the continuities and discontinuities represented by Fascism and, in particular, Fascist anti-Semitic policy on citizenship, thus articulating the nexus between “race” and “nativeness”.
Keywords: ; race, citizenship, denaturalization, fascism
Enrica Asquer, Il caso Blinderman. Naturalizzazione, revoca della cittadinanza e antisemitismo nell’Italia fascista in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 304/2024, pp 193-226, DOI: 10.3280/IC304-oa1