Camillo De Camillis

Camillo De Camillis
Italian Governor of Eritrea
In office
July 1, 1919  November 16, 1920
Preceded by Giacomo De Martino
Succeeded by Ludovico Pollera
Personal details
Nationality Italian

Camillo De Camillis was an Italian diplomat. He was an Italian colonial governor of Eritrea.

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His role of "Regent Governor" in Italian was Funzionario ruolo colonie (attribuzione: Reggente) from July 1919 to November 1920.

The Regent Governor of Eritrea Camillo De Camillis instructed all colonial commissaries in Eritrea to attribute Italian citizenship automatically to the sons and daughters of unknown Italian paternal parenthood, even in the absence of paternal legal acknowledgement. So these "mulatto" Eritrean kids became Italian citizens by law.[1]

This was a revolutionary law when created, opening the first steps toward racial integration in colonial Africa.

See also

Notes

  1. A Political History of National Citizenship and Identity in Italy, 1861–1950, by Sabina Donati

Bibliography

Preceded by
Giacomo De Martino
Italian Governor of Eritrea
1919–1920
Succeeded by
Ludovico Pollera
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