The Global Market for Investor Citizenship
The Global Market for Investor Citizenship

Author: Jelena Džankić

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 3030176320

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This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes. It explores how states develop new rules of joining their community in response to globalisation and highlights the tension between citizenship policies aimed at migrant integration and those, such as the sale of passports, which create ‘long-distance citizens’. Individual chapters offer insights in the historical relationship between citizenship, money and property; discuss arguments that support and counter the practice of the sale of citizenship; and examine the interests and strategies of the different actors—states, companies, individuals—that constitute the ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ sides of the burgeoning citizenship industry. The book provides a global overview of the market for investor citizenship as well as a separate policy analysis of the sale of citizenship and residence in the European Union.

The Global Market for Investor Citizenship
The Global Market for Investor Citizenship

Author: Jelena Dézankiâc

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9783030176334

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This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes. It explores how states develop new rules of joining their community in response to globalisation and highlights the tension between citizenship policies aimed at migrant integration and those, such as the sale of passports, which create 'long-distance citizens'. Individual chapters offer insights in the historical relationship between citizenship, money and property; discuss arguments that support and counter the practice of the sale of citizenship; and examine the interests and strategies of the different actors-states, companies, individuals-that constitute the 'supply' and 'demand' sides of the burgeoning citizenship industry. The book provides a global overview of the market for investor citizenship as well as a separate policy analysis of the sale of citizenship and residence in the European Union. Jelena Džankić is Coordinator of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) at the European University Institute, Italy. She researches citizenship in Europe and beyond, Europeanisation, and politics of identity.

The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship
The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship

Author: Ayelet Shachar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 0192528424

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Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in law, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and geography to provide a multidisciplinary, comparative discussion of different dimensions of citizenship: as legal status and political membership; as rights and obligations; as identity and belonging; as civic virtues and practices of engagement; and as a discourse of political and social equality or responsibility for a common good. The contributors engage with some of the oldest normative and substantive quandaries in the literature, dilemmas that have renewed salience in today's political climate. As well as setting an agenda for future theoretical and empirical explorations, this Handbook explores the state of citizenship today in an accessible and engaging manner that will appeal to a wide academic and non-academic audience. Chapters highlight variations in citizenship regimes practiced in different countries, from immigrant states to 'non-western' contexts, from settler societies to newly independent states, attentive to both migrants and those who never cross an international border. Topics include the 'selling' of citizenship, multilevel citizenship, in-between statuses, citizenship laws, post-colonial citizenship, the impact of technological change on citizenship, and other cutting-edge issues. This Handbook is the major reference work for those engaged with citizenship from a legal, political, and cultural perspective. Written by the most knowledgeable senior and emerging scholars in their fields, this comprehensive volume offers state-of-the-art analyses of the main challenges and prospects of citizenship in today's world of increased migration and globalization. Special emphasis is put on the question of whether inclusive and egalitarian citizenship can provide political legitimacy in a turbulent world of exploding social inequality and resurgent populism.

The Golden Passport
The Golden Passport

Author: Kristin Surak

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0674294726

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The first comprehensive on-the-ground investigation of the global market for citizenship, examining the wealthy elites who buy passports, the states and brokers who sell them, and the normalization of a once shadowy practice. Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country we belong to affects our rights, our travel possibilities, and ultimately our chances in life. Obtaining a new citizenship is rarely easy. But for those with the means—billionaires like Peter Thiel and Jho Low, but also countless unknown multimillionaires—it’s just a question of price. More than a dozen countries, many of them small islands in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and South Pacific, sell citizenship to 50,000 people annually. Through six years of fieldwork on four continents, Kristin Surak discovered how the initially dubious sale of passports has transformed into a full-blown citizenship industry that thrives on global inequalities. Some “investor citizens” hope to parlay their new passport into visa-free travel—or use it as a stepping stone to residence in countries like the United States. Other buyers take out a new citizenship as an insurance policy or to escape state control at home. Almost none, though, intend to move to their selected country and live among their new compatriots, whose relationship with these global elites is complex. A groundbreaking study of a contentious practice that has become popular among the nouveaux riches, The Golden Passport takes readers from the details of the application process to the geopolitical hydraulics of the citizenship industry. It’s a business that thrives on uncertainty and imbalances of power between big, globalized economies and tiny states desperate for investment. In between are the fascinating stories of buyers, brokers, and sellers, all ready to profit from the citizenship trade.

Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies
Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies

Author: Marisol García Cabeza

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-04-12

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1800880464

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This Encyclopedia presents a comprehensive collection of entries addressing the normative claims and definitions of the critical concepts, principles, and approaches that make up the field of citizenship studies.

Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook
Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook

Author: Christian H Kalin

Publisher: Ideos Publications Limited

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780993586620

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This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. "The definitive compendium of viable residence and citizenship options worldwide for anyone who is really serious about this topic." Prof. Dr. Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Chairman of Investment Migration Council, Switzerland "This book could be given to a client as an encompassing introduction to the subject, and, indeed, it is an excellent port of call for a practitioner not dealing with these topics on a daily basis." STEP Journal ..".the encyclopaedia of residence and citizenship-by-investment programs. It is a most valuable comprehensive reference addressing all questions that may come up when planning residence or citizenship in another country, including the legal, the financial, the personal and the practical." Ghada Alaltrash Gulf News, Dubai

Citizenship 2.0
Citizenship 2.0

Author: Yossi Harpaz

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 069119405X

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"The institution of citizenship has undergone significant change in the last two decades. Since the 1990s, dozens of countries have changed their laws to permit dual citizenship, moving away from the previous model that demanded exclusive allegiance. As a consequence, tens of millions of people around the world now hold citizenship in two (and sometimes three or four) countries. These changes have inevitably had an affect on the lived experience and personal meaning of citizenship, but the existing literature on dual citizenship has mostly focused on immigrants in Western Europe and North America and has inquired about identity and sentimental aspects of citizenship. Yossi Harpaz looks beyond the West in this book, arguing that the rise of dual citizenship has created new opportunities for non-Western elites to convert local advantages into a global resource. Millions draw on ancestral or ethnic ties to Western/EU countries or create such ties strategically in order to obtain a second nationality that will provide them with additional opportunities, an insurance policy, a high-prestige passport and even social status. He draws on qualitative and quantitative material from three cases that represent three pathways to compensatory citizenship: Hungarian-speaking Serbians who draw on their ethnicity to acquire a second citizenship from Hungary; upper-class Mexicans who engage in "birth tourism" in order to secure American citizenship for their children; and Israelis who reacquire the citizenship of European countries from which their parents and grandparents had immigrated half a century earlier"--

Citizenship and Residence Sales
Citizenship and Residence Sales

Author: Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-13

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 110858005X

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Citizenship and residence by investment is a fast-growing global phenomenon. As of 2022, more than a third of all countries in the world offered paths to membership in exchange for a donation or investment into their economies. Yet we know little about how these programmes operate and debates in academia and the wider public are often misinformed by sensationalist cases. This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of both citizenship and residence by investment on a global scale. Bringing together the expertise of leading legal scholars, economists, sociologists, political scientists, and historians, it provides an informative and empirically grounded assessment of the origins, operation, key causes, and the legal bases of the investment migration programmes. By so doing, the volume demystifies citizenship and residence by investment and takes a critical postcolonial global perspective, addressing key issues in belonging, exclusion, and inequality that define the world today.

Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook
Global Residence and Citizenship Handbook

Author: Christian Kalin

Publisher: Ideos Publications Limited

Published: 2013-01

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9783952405222

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This book presents in-depth yet practical information on the most important issues concerning international residence and citizenship planning for private clients. It is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. The book covers all important aspects of residence rules, citizenship law, dual citizenship, passports and visa-free travel, real estate and tax planning, and many more internationally relevant topics. With contributions by Prof. Patrick Weil, Prof. Marshall Langer, Simon Anholt and Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, a foreword by Tonio Fenech MP, former Minister of Finance, Economy and Investment of Malta, and an introduction by Julia Onslow-Cole, Head of Global Immigration at PwC. Christian H. Kalin is a Partner at Henley & Partners in Zurich. He is one of the pioneers and leading specialists in residence and citizenship programs and advises both private investors and governments.

Struggles for Belonging
Struggles for Belonging

Author: Dieter Gosewinkel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0192585061

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Citizenship was the most important mark of political belonging in Europe in the twentieth century, while estate, religion, party, class, and nation lost political significance in the century of extremes. This is shown by examining the legal institution of citizenship, with its deciding influence on the limits of a political community, on inclusion and exclusion. Citizenship determined a person's protection, equality, and freedom and thus his or her chances in life and very survival. This book recounts the history of citizenship in Europe as the history of European statehood in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It does so from three vantage points: as the development of a legal institution crucial to European constitutionalism; as a measure of an individual's opportunities for self-fulfilment ranging from freedom to totalitarian subjugation; and as a succession of alternating, often sharply divergent political regimes, considered from the perspective of their inclusivity and exclusivity, and its justification. The European history of citizenship is discussed in this book on the basis of six selected countries: Great Britain, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Russia. For the first time, a joint history of citizenship in Western and Eastern Europe is told here, from the heyday of the nation state to our present day, which is marked by the crises of the European Union. It is the history of a central legal institution that significantly represents and at the same time determines struggles over migration, integration, and belonging. One of the central concerns of this book is what lessons can be learned when it comes to the future chances of European citizenship.