Cosmopolities Global Citizen

Great Essays
Ludovico Brusà
POL 203B
Dr. Leon
November 28th, 2017

NATIONALISM AND PASSPORT MARKET

In her introduction book "The Cosmopolities: The Coming of the Global Citizen, Reporter Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the world to meet interested and innocent citizens or cosmopolites of the globe, who reside a new, borderless jurisdiction where things can work out smoothly, or very severely. The obligation of statehood and citizenship in a normal person’s life is always given less focus. Abrahamian, a journalist at Al Jazeera America, questions such satisfaction in a robust and perceptive depiction of the world of the stateless. She compares those who have many passports by economic opportunity, as nationality becomes a luxury commodity and a verge
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Instead, her account, just like other contemporary accounts of the international economy in the period of revenue inequality, revolves between the fortune and unfortunates, the smaller percent and everyone else. Moreover, those who subscribe to her special national loyalties: particularly, the billionaires and millionaires looking for their next visas and the unique category of global brokers such as Kalin, collecting up to sell them nationality to nations such as Antigua and St. Kitts. These island countries have become particularly impoverished for cash following the 2008 global economic misfortune: St. Kitts, with the support of Kalin, will supply citizen –investors with a residence distant from home for between $300,000 and $400,000. That is a massive boom for a small Caribbean country. Abrahamian clarifies that passport money increased from one percent to twenty-five percent of the state’s gross domestic between 2006 and 2014 having the visas the country’s leading …show more content…
But today though, cosmopolitanism belongs to those who can manage it.

Work Cited

Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Cosmopolites: The coming of the global citizen. Columbia Global Reports, 2015.

The Cosmopolites: The coming of the global citizen
Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Cosmopolites: The coming of the global citizen. Columbia Global Reports, 2015.

Jansen, Yolande, Robin Celikates, and Joost de Bloois. "The irregularization of migration in contemporary Europe: detention, deportation, drowning." (2015). Sager, Alex. "The ethics and politics of immigration: core issues and emerging trends." (2016).

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