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- Citizenship and Residence Sales
- Citizenship and Residence Sales
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Avant-propos
- Preface by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Table of Cases
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Mapping Investment Migration Law and Practice
- Part II Explanations and Contextualizations
- 7 Citizenship for Sale in Pre-modern Europe
- 8 Unseemly, Perhaps, but …: Should Citizenship Be for Sale?
- 9 Citizenship by Investment: A Case of Instrumental Citizenship
- 10 The Colonial Institution of Citizenship and Global Capitalist Dynamics
- 11 Citizenship and Residence Rights as Vehicles of Global Inequality
- 12 The ‘Streetlight Effect’ in Commentary on Citizenship by Investment
- 13 A Blocked Exchange? Investment Citizenship and the Limits of the Commodification Objection
- 14 Why Do Wealthy Individuals Migrate Internationally
- Part III Case Studies and Implications
- Index
8 - Unseemly, Perhaps, but …: Should Citizenship Be for Sale?
from Part II - Explanations and Contextualizations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
- Citizenship and Residence Sales
- Citizenship and Residence Sales
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Avant-propos
- Preface by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
- Table of Cases
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Mapping Investment Migration Law and Practice
- Part II Explanations and Contextualizations
- 7 Citizenship for Sale in Pre-modern Europe
- 8 Unseemly, Perhaps, but …: Should Citizenship Be for Sale?
- 9 Citizenship by Investment: A Case of Instrumental Citizenship
- 10 The Colonial Institution of Citizenship and Global Capitalist Dynamics
- 11 Citizenship and Residence Rights as Vehicles of Global Inequality
- 12 The ‘Streetlight Effect’ in Commentary on Citizenship by Investment
- 13 A Blocked Exchange? Investment Citizenship and the Limits of the Commodification Objection
- 14 Why Do Wealthy Individuals Migrate Internationally
- Part III Case Studies and Implications
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers a political science take on citizenship by investment through a tour d’horizon. Examining transformations over centuries, the analysis integrates investment migration – and especially citizenship for sale – in the classical political science literature.
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- Citizenship and Residence SalesRethinking the Boundaries of Belonging, pp. 223 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023