{"id":221636,"date":"2026-06-01T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?p=221636"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:16:11","slug":"dr-fiore-quoted-in-new-yorker-article-about-the-impact-of-the-citizenship-law-on-italys-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/2026\/06\/01\/dr-fiore-quoted-in-new-yorker-article-about-the-impact-of-the-citizenship-law-on-italys-soccer-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fiore Quoted in New Yorker Article about the Impact of the Citizenship Law on Italy’s Soccer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, World Languages and Cultures Dept.) was quoted in a New Yorker<\/em> article about the impact of the citizenship law on Italy’s soccer team. Titled “Italy Has Failed to Qualify for Three Straight World Cups. Are the Country\u2019s Immigration Policies to Blame?,”<\/a> the article was penned by Albert Samaha and published in the May 30, 20026 issue.<\/p>\n

Italy’s team has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the third time in a row, thus missing the competition for 12 years. Samaha’s analysis moves from the recognition of the the lack of racial diversity in the team, and investigates the reason for its homogeneity by looking at socio-cultural and legal issues. Dr. Fiore contributed information about Italy’s immigration and emigration flows over time and how they intersect in a citizenship law full of contradictions. The law favors Italian descendants over immigrants and their children, even when they are born in Italy, revealing its complex relationship with its colonial past which marked a deep separation with “other” populations from a legal point of view (prohibition to marry locals, lack of recognition of mixed children, etc.). According to the article’s writer, one of the possible reasons why the national team is not leveraging young talent from the immigrant communities lies in this unaddressed legacy, and in the impact of the law that governs legal belonging to the country. And Italy does not seem to take account, shamelessly.<\/p>\n

Fiore has written about Italy’s citizenship law in her book Pre-occupied Space: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(2017) and has curated an exhibit about this topic titled Diritto di sangue – Rovescio di sangue<\/a> by Marina Sagona (2025).<\/p>\n

See article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, World Languages and Cultures Dept.) was quoted in a New Yorker article about the impact of the citizenship law on Italy’s soccer team. Titled “Italy Has Failed to Qualify for Three Straight World Cups. Are the Country\u2019s Immigration Policies to Blame?,” the article was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":221643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60,17,18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-global-cultural-studies","category-88_italian-news-and-events","category-teresa-fiore-research","category-197_modern-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221645,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221636\/revisions\/221645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}