When you think of high-end luxury commodities, you might imagine yachts, private jets, or even whole islands. But in the last few years, another commodity has started to receive a lot of attention from the world’s wealthiest people: citizenship.&nbsp;With enough money, people can buy their way into becoming a citizen of a growing list of countries around the world. While this trend has garnered lots of attention in the last few years, as our guest on this episode explains, there’s so much more to the story than meets the eye.&nbsp;Kristin Surak is a sociologist and author of the new book “<a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires</a>.” In it, she pulls back the curtain on this rarified luxury market — who’s buying, who’s selling, and the complex web of middlemen that make it all work.&nbsp;On this episode, Mark Blyth talks with Surak about what might be called the “citizenship industrial complex”’ and what it says about our global economy.&nbsp;<ul><li><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674248649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about and purchase “The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires</a>”</li><li><a href="https://home.watson.brown.edu/news/podcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn more about our other podcasts at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Transcript coming soon to our website</a></li></ul>

Podurama

Home

Trending

Personal

Your Podcasts

New Episodes

My Files

Favourite Episodes

Tags (Folders)

Recently Played

Bookmarks

Followed Playlists

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy citizenship abroad

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

AI Chapters

AI Insights

Reviews