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visit Iuk.K'm David Prius. This week, political sociologist and author Kristen Surac on the global citizenship industry.

The rights we have as citizens, we often think about them in terms of what we get inside a country. But being a citizen of a country also gets

you benefits outside of a country in third countries. Basically what governments require is either a donation to the government or a particular

investment in the country.

You do that, you go through some background checks, you can usually bring your family members

on as well, and then typically somewhere between three months to a year

you can become a citizen in the country sometimes without ever having to visit.

When I was in Montenegro I'd be like oh oh yeah, Citizen-By Investment, what do you think they'd say,

oh, the government's so corrupt? I would ask them, what do you think of this concept of selling citizenship?

And even then a lot of people would answer, well, you know, what else do we have?

Kristen Surak, welcome to Chatter.

Thanks very much for having me on.

A few weeks ago, I saw an updated listing of the world's, what they called the world's most powerful

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