Spatial Citizenship: from a claim against the state to a premise of post-national dynamics. The case of CoNNGI and Italians Without Citizenship

The paper aims to analyse through the concept of «spatial citizenship» (Sbicca and Perdue 2014) the claims for the right to citizenship carried out by two Italian groups composed of people with migratory backgrounds, The National Coordination of New Italian Generations – Coordinamento Nazionale Nuove Generazioni Italiane (CoNNGI) and Italians without Citizenship – Italiani Senza Cittadinanza. By tracing the discursive dynamics of re-bordering of their identity-building processes, it will be shown how the protagonists of CoNNGI and Italians without Citizenship end up reframing the borders of the nation-state, challenging the link between citizenship and nationality.