Project data

Funding entiy: Italian Ministry of University and Research

Call: PRIN 2017

Coordinator: UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO

UNISI Principal Investigator: Valeria Piergigli

Department: Law

Start date: 20 March 2020 – End date: 20 March 2024

 

Description

In the framework of the general project (Principal Investigator: Prof. A. Torre, University of Bari), the unit of SIENA is carrying out several studies (proceedings, books, articles) dedicated to the relationship between separatisms, citizenship transformations and safeguard of individual and collective minorities’ rights, with a particular focus on the origins and the evolutions of those phenomena using a comparative methodology and an empirical approach. The goals of this investigation consist in verifying the potential of said transformations within the European legal space (in particular in the EU) and their ability to address the independence drives that, especially in the last few years, are gaining momentum in several areas of the continent. For this purpose, the constitutional focus is necessarily paired with an analysis of the current laws on citizenship and immigration, as well as of the national and local regulations for the protection of minorities and the laws adopted for the ratification of international treaties for the protection of linguistic and ethnic minorities. The interpretation given to said regulations by he Constitutional Courts and by the Strasbourg Court shed some light on the most problematic issues which said phenomena bring to the attention of institutions and, in general, of the society.

 

This project has received funding from Ministry of University and Research (MUR) – PRIN 2017