Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T09:22:27.506Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

13 - A Blocked Exchange? Investment Citizenship and the Limits of the Commodification Objection

from Part II - Explanations and Contextualizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

By
Lior Erez
Edited by
Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov  and
Kristin Surak
Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov
Affiliation:
Central European University in Budapest and Vienna
Kristin Surak
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Get access

Summary

This chapter calls for a re-evaluation of the predominate academic approaches to citizenship by investment. It unpacks the problematic assumptions of three popular types of critiques of investment migration in the existing literature: the wrong distribution argument, the degradation of value argument, and the motivational corruption argument.

Keywords

citizenship theorycritical citizenship studiesscientific biasesnaturalisationsbelonging
Type
Chapter
Information
Citizenship and Residence Sales
Rethinking the Boundaries of Belonging
 , pp. 335 - 360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×