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The Resource The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Label
The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen
Title
The cosmopolites
Title remainder
the coming of the global citizen
Statement of responsibility
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawyers, bankers, and consultants that specialize in expatriation. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first century citizenship is bigger than millionaires buying their second or third passport. When she learned that mysterious middlemen had persuaded the Comoro Islands to turn to selling citizenship as a new source of revenue, she decided to follow the money trail to the Middle East. There, she found that officials in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates had bulk-ordered passports for their bidoon, or stateless population, transforming these men, women, and children without countries into Comorian citizens practically overnight. In her timely and eye-opening first book, Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting "cosmopolites," or citizens of the world, who show us how transactional and unpredictable national citizenship in the twenty-first century can be. -- Amazon.com
Cataloging source
JAI
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia
Dewey number
364.16/35
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
LC call number
JZ1320.4
LC item number
.A32 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • World citizenship
  • Citizenship
  • Passports
  • Identification cards
  • Globalization
  • Forgery
  • Comoros
Label
The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Instantiates
Publication
Bar code
  • 31223114654289
  • 31223114654396
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-166)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Islands of the moon -- Market-based solutions -- The reluctant cosmopolite -- The man who sold the world -- We are the world -- The moon and stars -- Native sons
Dimensions
19 cm
Extent
166 pages
Isbn
9780990976363
Lccn
2015946813
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
map
System control number
  • 927317044
  • (OCoLC)927317044
Label
The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Publication
Bar code
  • 31223114654289
  • 31223114654396
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-166)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Islands of the moon -- Market-based solutions -- The reluctant cosmopolite -- The man who sold the world -- We are the world -- The moon and stars -- Native sons
Dimensions
19 cm
Extent
166 pages
Isbn
9780990976363
Lccn
2015946813
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
map
System control number
  • 927317044
  • (OCoLC)927317044

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