'The prospect of 'selling citizenship' provokes indignation from those who cling to a romantic idea of what citizenship should mean, be or do. The authors of this volume proceed from the reality of what citizenship as legal status actually is and does, and raise important questions about the normative and pragmatic implications for regulating how citizenship is distributed.' Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto

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.