The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia
The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

The surprising and sometimes scandalous story of twenty-first-century citizenship The buying and selling of citizenship has become...
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Author: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

$157.50
The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen by Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

$157.50
Author: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The surprising and sometimes scandalous story of twenty-first-century citizenship

The buying and selling of citizenship has become a thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs and libertarians are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens like Singapore and the Caribbean. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first-century citizenship is bigger than millionaires seeking their next passport.

When Abrahamian learned that a group of mysterious middlemen were persuading island nations like the Comoros, St. Kitts, and Antigua to turn to selling citizenship as a new source of revenue after the 2008 financial crisis, she decided to follow the money trail to the Middle East. There, she found that the customers of passports-in-bulk programs were the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, oil-rich countries that don't want to confer their own citizenship on their bidoon people, or stateless minorities who have no documentation.

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 inhabit a new, borderless realm where things can go very well, or very badly.

Author: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780990976363


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/14/2015
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2015
Library Journal 10/15/2015 pg. 103
New York Times Book Review 01/17/2016 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 01/24/2016 pg. 22

About the Author
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America and a contributing editor at The New Inquiry and Dissent. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. A former reporter for Reuters, she is a citizen of Canada, Switzerland, and Iran, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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