The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawyers bankers and consultants that specialize in expatriation. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered the story of twenty first century citizenship is bigger than millionaires buying their second or third passport. When she learned that mysterious middlemen had persuaded the Comoro Islands to turn to selling citizenship as a new source of revenue she decided to follow the money trail to the Middle East. There she found that officials in the oil rich United Arab Emirates had bulk ordered passports for their bidoon or stateless population transforming these men women and children without countries into Comorian citizens practically overnight. In her timely and eye opening first book Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting cosmopolites or citizens of the world who show us how transactional and unpredictable national citizenship in the twenty first century can be. Amazon.com Islands of the moon Market based solutions The reluctant cosmopolite The man who sold the world We are the world The moon and stars Native sons