Project description
Citizenship and reproductive law in modern societies
Jus sanguinis (Latin for ‘right of blood’) is a citizenship principle whereby a person becomes a citizen because they have a parent or ancestor who is a citizen. As family structures diversify and reproductive technologies evolve, understanding the link between citizenship and reproduction is increasingly important. In-depth research is essential. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the REPROCIT project will investigate how the state views the (fertile) body as a resource for labour and military service, as well as the body’s role in defining citizenship. By examining the connections between reproductive law, parentage policies, and citizenship status, the project aims to contribute to the debate on the state’s role in guaranteeing the right to reproduction.
Objective
Based on the pillars of traditional nuclear families and unassisted human reproduction, ius sanguinis as the oldest mode of citizenship transmission, has been devised to ensure the intergenerational continuity of political communities. As such, it is the most dominant mode of citizenship acquisition around the globe. Yet, what happens to citizenship transmission when reproductive law becomes a site of contestation? How does the regulation of reproductive rights shape the composition of the body politic (i.e. who and under what conditions can be recognised as future citizens)? REPROCIT addresses these questions through the lens of the biopolitics of citizenship, where the (fertile) body has been viewed by the state as a resource: for labor, for creating armies, and for defining who is recognised as a citizen. The increase in diverse families, (i.e. single-parent, same-sex married, or unmarried parents), rise in maternal age and declines in male fertility, combined with advances in assisted reproductive technologies, as well as the upsurge in the use of surrogates and adoption services, all highlight that debates on citizenship status transmission are inextricable from those on human reproduction and the legal and social parameters of the family. While previous research has occasionally touched upon these issues, so far, there has been no conceptual or empirical endeavour at studying them systematically.
REPROCIT highlights the interconnections between reproductive law, establishment of parentage policy, and citizenship status attribution empirically and theoretically; by doing so, the project advances an important normative debate facing societies, whether and to what extent the state should provide a right to reproduction.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Italy
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