The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Descriere The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen - Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

The surprising and sometimes scandalous story of twenty-first-century citizenship \n \nThe buying and selling of citizenship has become a thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs and libertarians are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens like Singapore and the Caribbean. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first-century citizenship is bigger than millionaires seeking their next passport. \n \n \nWhen Abrahamian learned that a group of mysterious middlemen were persuading island nations like the Comoros, St. Kitts, and Antigua to turn to selling citizenship as a new source of revenue after the 2008 financial crisis, she decided to follow the money trail to the Middle East. There, she found that the customers of passports-in-bulk programs were the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, oil-rich countries that don't want to confer their own citizenship on their bidoon people, or stateless minorities who have no documentation. \n \n \nIn her timely and eye-opening first book, Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting cosmopolites, or citizens of the world, who inhabit a new, borderless realm where things can go very well, or very badly.\n

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Columbia Global Reports

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9780990976363

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