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Passport Island

The Market for Eu Citizenship in Cyprus

Theodoros Rakopoulos

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English
Manchester University Press
27 June 2023
This book offers a unique insight into the global trend towards the commodification of citizenship. In Cyprus, as well as many other countries, foreign investors can become naturalised citizens for a price.

Exploring the fact that there is now a price tag to the national (and therefore EU) passport, the book examines the nature of citizenship alongside the unequal interactions between global political economy and national political communities. The analysis stresses how golden passports rearrange common sensibilities about the principle of political equality through citizenship. The book is a rare ethnography of the transactional relations between Russian investors who wish to acquire the Cypriot passport and their Cypriot 'facilitators', the local professionals who ease the process. The book argues that golden passports are the continuation of offshoring by other means, as now not only capital but capitalists too, 'have no country'.

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Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   472g
ISBN:   9781526167361
ISBN 10:   1526167360
Pages:   248
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: The world according to jus pecuniae 1 Location: On research where a Republic is (re)made 2 CIPizenship: On the making of golden passports 3 Makers: On the art of selling a passport 4 Takers: On offshore citizens in Cyprus 5 Markets: On the global economy of selling citizenship Conclusion: Propertied citizenship -- .

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology department, University of Oslo

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