Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-166)

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cosmopolites

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

927317044

Responsibility statement

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Sub title

the coming of the global citizen

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

Table Of 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

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