LCCN2022-033349
Reviews'Rigorous and sparklingly innovative interdisciplinary volume on emergent global commodification of citizenship status, offering a robust set of stringent empirical and historical analyses, framed by a resolutely non-romanticist conceptual approach to citizenship as status and practice, this collection lays indispensable groundwork for a new generation of 'citizenship studies'. Essential reading for the field going forward.' Linda Bosniak, Rutgers Law School, 'The prospect of 'selling citizenship' provokes indignation from those who cling to a romantic idea of what citizenship should mean, be or do. The authors of this volume proceed from the reality of what citizenship as legal status actually is and does, and raise important questions about the normative and pragmatic implications for regulating how citizenship is distributed.' Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto, 'Passports by investment may be the ultimate political turn of globalization. Such programs recognize the demand for alternative citizenship or residence and supply these to the elite of the world. This deeply researched and well-written volume provides all the analytical tools and empirics for scholars and policymakers to study these arrangements and contemplate the longer term implications.' Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton University, 'The fact remains that by articulating law, economics and political science to subject residence and nationality to a close debate, the collective work edited by Kochenov and Surak presents an impressive series of arguments, likely to make the most seasoned specialists doubt. These arguments, in fact, feed a fundamental debate that is sometimes a little easily dismissed, by a few vague and irenic considerations on the importance and persistence of the nation. After Kochenov and Surak's book, such casualness is no longer an option. Perhaps more than convincing, then, the book destabilizes and gives us food for thought. Can one find a more pressing need for a book on the humanities?' Etienne Pataut , Revue Critique de Droit International Privé
Table Of ContentIntroduction: learning from investment migration Dimitry Kochenov and Kristin Surak; Part I. Mapping Investment Migration Law and Practice: 1. Investment migration: empirical developments in the field and methodological issues in its study Kristin Surak; 2. Victims of citizenship: feudal statuses for sale in the hypocrisy republic Dimitry Kochenov; 3. Investort citizenship and state sovereignty in international law Luuk van der Baaren; 4. Investment citizenship and the long leash of international law Peter J. Spiro; 5. Relevant links: investment migration as an expression of national autonomy in matters of nationality Petra Weingerl and Matjaz Tratnik; 6. EU competence and investor migration Daniel Sarmiento and Martijn van den Brink; Part II. Explanations and Contextualizations: 7. Citizenship for sale in pre-modern Europe Maarten Prak; 8. Unseemly, perhaps, but...: should citizenship be for sale? John Torpey; 9. Citizenship by investment: a case of instrumental citizenship Christian Joppke; 10. The colonial institution of citizenship and global capitalist dynamics Manuela Boatca; 11. Citizenship and residence rights as vehicles of global inequality Yossi Harpaz; 12. The 'Streetlight Effect' in commentary on citizenship by investment Suryapratim Roy; 13. A blocked exchange? Investment citizenship and the limits of the commodification objection Lior Erez; 14. Why do wealthy individuals migrate internationally: some economic considerations Andrés Solimano; Part III. Case Studies and Implications: 15. Can investor residence and citizenship programmes be a policy success? Madeleine Sumption; 16. Citizenship revocation and the normalisation of ex-post conditionality in investment migration law Daniel Christopher Twomey; 17. In the shadow of the Euro crisis: foreign direct investment and investment migration programmes in the European Union Justin Lindeboom and Sophie Meunier; 18. Investment migration and corruption: state capture and the Hungarian residency bond program 2012-2017 Boldizsár Nagy; 19. Investment migration and the importance of due diligence: examples of Canada, Saint-Kitts and Nevis, and the EU Mark Corrado and Kim Marsh; 20. Investment migration and subnational jurisdictions Godfrey Baldacchino and Elena Basheska.
SynopsisCitizenship 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., The first multi-disciplinary exploration of citizenship and residence by investment on a global scale with an informative and empirically-grounded assessment of the origins, operation, and main causes of the global investment migration trend. It addresses key issues in belonging, exclusion and inequality that define the world today.