The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen

The Resource The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen
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The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen
Title remainder
the coming of the global citizen
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Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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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
Dewey number
364.16/35
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Index
no index present
LC call number
JZ1320.4
LC item number
.A32 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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