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“[A] fascinating study of how people―and their capital―seek to move around a world that is at once hugely interconnected and driven by inequities…definitive, detailed, and unusually nuanced.”
―Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Foreign Affairs
The first comprehensive on-the-ground investigation of the global market for citizenship, examining the wealthy elites who buy passports, the states and brokers who sell them, and the normalization of a once shadowy practice.
Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country we belong to affects our rights, our travel possibilities, and ultimately our chances in life. Obtaining a new citizenship is rarely easy. But for those with the means―billionaires like Peter Thiel and Jho Low, but also countless unknown multimillionaires―it’s just a question of price.
More than a dozen countries, many of them small islands in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and South Pacific, sell citizenship to 50,000 people annually. Through six years of fieldwork on four continents, Kristin Surak discovered how the initially dubious sale of passports has transformed into a full-blown citizenship industry that thrives on global inequalities. Some “investor citizens” hope to parlay their new passport into visa-free travel―or use it as a stepping stone to residence in countries like the United States. Other buyers take out a new citizenship as an insurance policy or to escape state control at home. Almost none, though, intend to move to their selected country and live among their new compatriots, whose relationship with these global elites is complex.
A groundbreaking study of a contentious practice that has become popular among the nouveaux riches, The Golden Passport takes readers from the details of the application process to the geopolitical hydraulics of the citizenship industry. It’s a business that thrives on uncertainty and imbalances of power between big, globalized economies and tiny states desperate for investment. In between are the fascinating stories of buyers, brokers, and sellers, all ready to profit from the citizenship trade.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Harvard University Press (Sept. 19 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0674248643
ISBN-13 : 978-0674248649
Item weight : 680 g
Dimensions : 15.56 x 2.79 x 23.5 cm
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Amazon Customer –
The book is incredibly comprehensive and well documented with actual data from around the world . It is extremely well written that also includes the author’s personal experiences with government and wealth individuals involved in the selling of citizenships. Dr. Surak is an outstanding scholar who also have the ability to present this important topic in a relevant and personal context.
Alex –
The most interesting book I’ve read on globalization in a long time.
Amazon Customer –
“The Golden Passport” by Kristin Surak is an eye-opening journey into the realm of citizenship-for-investment. I loved her writing style – the perfect combination of rigorous investigation and engaging narratives. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in global migration and markets!