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12 - The ‘Streetlight Effect’ in Commentary on Citizenship by Investment

from Part II - Explanations and Contextualizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

By
Suryapratim Roy
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
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Summary

In this chapter, I highlight the problematic starting point of three key trends in the relevant literature on the sale of citizenship, demonstrating that it suffers from a ‘streetlight effect’ by inescapably privileging the claims made in the name of what theorists see as the pre-existing community, allowing such claims to trump all other concerns. The fact of the matter is, however, that when certain forms of inclusion are assessed, it is not only the interests of rich, Western societies which are at stake.

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citizenship theorycitizenship philosophyglobal inequalitysocial science methodsscientific biasesinvestment migration
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Citizenship and Residence Sales
Rethinking the Boundaries of Belonging
 , pp. 309 - 334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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