The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen
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Published
New York : Columbia Global Reports, ©2015.
Status
Westover - Adult Nonfiction
364.1635 ABRAH
1 available
364.1635 ABRAH
1 available
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Published
New York : Columbia Global Reports, ©2015.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
166 pages : map ; 19 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Abrahamian, A. A. (2015). The cosmopolites: the coming of the global citizen . Columbia Global Reports.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. 2015. The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen. Columbia Global Reports.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen Columbia Global Reports, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen Columbia Global Reports, 2015.
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