The Cosmopolites

The cosmopolites are literally citizens of the world, from the Greek word kosmos, meaning world, and polites, or citizen Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war Today there are cosmopolites of all stripes, rich or poor, intentional or unwitting, from 1 percenters who own five passports thanks to tax havens to the Bidoon, the stateless people of countries like the United Arab Emirates Journalist Atossa Abrahamian, herself a cosmopolite, travels around the globe to meet the people who have come to embody an increasingly fluid, borderless world.Along the way you are introduced to a colorful cast of characters, including passport burning atheist hackers, the new Knights of Malta, California libertarian seasteaders, who are residents of floating city states, Bidoons, who have been forced to be citizens of the island nation Comoros, entrepreneurs in the business of buying and selling passports, cosmopolites who live on a luxury cruise ship called The World, and shady businessmen with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad. Read The Cosmopolites – kino-fada.fr Some are born citizens, some purchase citizenship, and some have citizenship thrust upon them this, in a nutshell, provides the narrative arc to Abrahamian s wonderful little book At its analytic core, this book is an account of the rise of the passport sales industry, pioneered by various passport entrepreneurs, who have figured that this is a good revenue generation scheme for many impoverished island nations she focuses on the Comoro Islands, a former French colony in the Indian Ocean, and Some are born citizens, some purchase ...One of my colleagues recommended this book, though I can t recall how he or she used it or the subject matter of the class I currently teach a writing class and am interested in using a theme of global engagement citizenship, so this looks interesting It s absolutely not what I was expecting.I figured the book would beabout seeing beyond national borders to see ourselves as citizens of the entire world thus making international concerns our own , and that was actually not far off in som One of my colleagues recommended this book, though I can t recall how he or ...This is a marvelous book I knew virtually nothing about how citizenships are sold nowadays, by the rich who wantuseful passports, either for international travel or to avoid taxes e.g did you know that one of Facebooks co founders renounced his US citizenship in order to avoid taxes as well as by the poor Kuwait, the Emirates etc are trying to get rid of their stateless population by deporting them with freshly bought passports Definitely gets you to think about the concept of This is a marvelous book I knew virtually nothing about how citizenships are sold nowadays, by the r...There s a couple of interesting story arcs in this anthology of extra citizenship, and a tolerable minimum of filler There sin the way of uncritical reporting than actual analysis, though every mention of Bitcoin makes my teeth itch.A very interesting concept, but the book focused on one story at the expense of many it could have mentioned The intro, afterword, and a chapter in the middle about the technological changes pushing for national sovereig...This book was enthralling I could have read it in one sitting The author maintained a humorous tone while dealing with heavy questions such as What is the point of citizenship and Who has the right to decide citizenship None of the things dealt with in the book can be reduced to black and white,...The Comoro Islands story reads like something that Jimmy Breslin would have uncovered years ago behavior that s equal parts cynical, believable, and telling.Clumsily written the author was far too indecisive about the tone and characterization.I thought this was OK but could have been fleshed outit sof a collection of excellent long form articles than it is a coherent book Some of this is probably familiar to many readers the part about the bidoon in the UAE and Kuwait, though, was entirely new to me and worth the price of admission I knew that rich people and various idealists were mucking around with passports, but I had no idea that ultra high net worth STATES were vacuuming up passports in order to solve proble I thought this was OK but could have been fleshed outit sof a collection of excellent long form articles than it is a coherent book Some of this is probably familiar to many readers the part about the bidoon in the UAE and Kuwait, though, was entirely new to me and worth the price of a...Why are so many families whose lives have been spent wholly in the UAE as well as their parents lives, and theirs before them suddenly Comorian citizens Why are the wealthiest of businessmen note the gender passport carrying citizens of an incredible number of countries, from St Kitts to Switzerland to Malta and on Most trenchantly, what is happening here when citizenship is bought,...

• English
• 05 September 2018
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• Paperback
• 162 pages
• 099097636X
• Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• The Cosmopolites