Shachar on the Marketization of Citizenship

Ayelet Shachar (University of Toronto – Faculty of Law) has posted The Marketization of Citizenship in an Age of Restrictionism (Ethics & International Affairs 32 (2018), 3-13) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: In today’s age of restrictionism, a growing number of countries are closing their gates of admission to most categories of would-be immigrants with one important exception. Governments increasingly seek to lure and attract “high value” migrants, especially those with access to large sums of capital. These individuals are offered golden visa programs that lead to fast-tracked naturalization in exchange for a hefty investment, in some cases without inhabiting or even setting foot in the passport-issuing country to which they now officially belong. In the U.S. context, the contrast between the “Dreamers” and “Parachuters” helps to draw out this distinction between civic ties and credit lines as competing bases…

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