Citizenship and Residence Sales

Dimitry Kochenov leads the Rule of Law research group at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest and is Professor at CEU Legal Studies Department in Vienna, as well as associate of EU Program at Princeton University. He has taught citizenship from Princeton and Rome to the College of Europe, co-convened an Oxford seminar on Citizenship for Sale, served as the founding chairman of the Investment Migration Council (Geneva), and advised international institutions and governments, including Dutch and Maltese. His Citizenship (2019) has been reviewed in the NYRB. Kristin Surak is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (2023). Her research on golden passports, international migration, nationalism, and political sociology has been translated into a half-dozen languages.

Introduction: learning from investment migration Dimitry Kochenov and Kristin Surak; Part I. Mapping Investment Migration Law and Practice: 1. Investment migration: empirical developments in the field and methodological issues in its study Kristin Surak; 2. Victims of citizenship: feudal statuses for sale in the hypocrisy republic Dimitry Kochenov; 3. Investort citizenship and state sovereignty in international law Luuk van der Baaren; 4. Investment citizenship and the long leash of international law Peter J. Spiro; 5. Relevant links: investment migration as an expression of national autonomy in matters of nationality Petra Weingerl and Matjaž Tratnik; 6. EU competence and investor migration Daniel Sarmiento and Martijn van den Brink; Part II. Explanations and Contextualizations: 7. Citizenship for sale in pre-modern Europe Maarten Prak; 8. Unseemly, perhaps, but…: should citizenship be for sale? John Torpey; 9. Citizenship by investment: a case of instrumental citizenship Christian Joppke; 10. The colonial institution of citizenship and global capitalist dynamics Manuela Boatcă; 11. Citizenship and residence rights as vehicles of global inequality Yossi Harpaz; 12. The 'Streetlight Effect' in commentary on citizenship by investment Suryapratim Roy; 13. A blocked exchange? Investment citizenship and the limits of the commodification objection Lior Erez; 14. Why do wealthy individuals migrate internationally: some economic considerations Andrés Solimano; Part III. Case Studies and Implications: 15. Can investor residence and citizenship programmes be a policy success? Madeleine Sumption; 16. Citizenship revocation and the normalisation of ex-post conditionality in investment migration law Daniel Christopher Twomey; 17. In the shadow of the Euro crisis: foreign direct investment and investment migration programmes in the European Union Justin Lindeboom and Sophie Meunier; 18. Investment migration and corruption: state capture and the Hungarian residency bond program 2012–2017 Boldizsár Nagy; 19. Investment migration and the importance of due diligence: examples of Canada, Saint-Kitts and Nevis, and the EU Mark Corrado and Kim Marsh; 20. Investment migration and subnational jurisdictions Godfrey Baldacchino and Elena Basheska.