This project funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship examines Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) with a focus on the powerful ‘Citizenship Industry’ – the corporate sector developing, managing and promoting CBI.
While many countries now offer residence-by-investment (RBI) schemes, an increasing number of countries go further and offer CBI, which allows high net-worth individuals to purchase citizenship regardless of regular naturalisation criteria like residence.
While international borders are hardening, CBI is expanding and multiple passports are fast becoming a prime status symbol of the global super-rich. This project examines CBI and its reformulation of citizenship, redrafting of state-corporate relationships, commodification of mobility and reworking of global inequality. The project maps the ‘new geographies of belonging’ of the super-rich and explores how wealth accumulation and migration are becoming increasingly interlinked projects.
The project will run from Sep 2020 – Aug 2023.
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Researcher
Dr Sarah Kunz, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies.
Prof Bridget Anderson, Mentor, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies.