Your country for sale?: Understanding the citizenship by investment

Authors

  • Nimet Özbek Ankara University

Keywords:

Citizenship for sale, Citizenship by investment, Nationality, Human Rights

Abstract

Where is the cheapest place to buy citizenship? With this question used as a heading in a BBC News Business section, by the reporter Kim Gittleson, New York, We got an idea of writing an academic paper concerning this issue, which is very controversial.

Some people call it citizenship for sale and others call it citizenship by investment; but what is really the difference? This is a scheme of acquiring citizenship rather than yours in case you accept to pay a predetermined sum of money or under a form of investment, it is only made to attract rich individuals and raise the revenues of that country you are applying for citizenship.

In this paper, we will analyze this kind of acquiring citizenship in comparison with the normal way of gaining another country’s nationality within the spirit of international human rights law.

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Author Biography

Nimet Özbek, Ankara University

Assoc. Prof. Dr., Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science

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Published

2018-10-24

How to Cite

Özbek, N. (2018). Your country for sale?: Understanding the citizenship by investment. Journal of Human Sciences, 15(4), 1940–1943. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/5532

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 4 (2018)

Section

Law

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Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
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