The Graduate School of Social Sciences cordially invites you to a special seminar on "The Sale of Citizenship" on Wednesday 27 November at Hitotsubashi University.


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Citizenship is often seen as a hallowed bond between sovereign and subject. Yet over the past ten years, a number of small countries have begun to sell it outright - and for remarkable sums - through formal, government-run programs. Drawing on three years of fieldwork in over fifteen countries, this talk introduces the global market in citizenship. It investigates the countries the sell citizenship, the wealthy people who buy it, and the intermediaries who make the market to explain why citizenship concerns far more than the rights one gains in a country, why global inequality is not just about the rich buying privilege, and why a fruit seller in Saint Kitts would be happy if you bought his citizenship too.


<Speakers>

The main lecturer Dr. Kristin Surak is an Associate Professor of Politics at SOAS University of London whose research on international migration, nationalism, and political sociology has been translated into a half-dozen languages. In addition to publishing in major academic and intellectual journals, she also writes regularly for popular outlets, including the London Review of Books, New Statesman, and Washington Post. She is the author of Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice (Stanford University Press 2013), which received the Book of the Year Award from the American Sociological Association's Asian Section. She has been an invited Fellow at Princeton University; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Clare Hall, Cambridge University; and the European University Institute.


The discussant Professor Osamu Arakaki is a professor at International Christian University (ICU), Japan, and an expert of international law and international relations. He received a PhD in Law from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, an MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. Before he began serving at ICU, he was a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, USA, visiting associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and professor at Hiroshima City University, Japan. His main works include Refugee Law and Practice in Japan (Ashgate, 2008), "Non-state actors and UNHCR's supervisory role in international relations," in James C Simeon (ed.), The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Statelessness Conventions and Japanese Laws: Convergence and Divergence (UNHCR Representation in Japan, 2015).



Time and Date: 18:00-20:00, Wednesday 27 November
Place: Sano Shoin Hall of Hitotsubashi University (http://www1.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/coe-res/paper_doc/sano.pdf )
(about 15 mins walk from the JR Kunitachi Station)
Language: English
No prior registration required
Organiser: The Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
Supported by Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies
Contact: Dr. Naoko Hashimoto, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University (naoko.hashimoto@r.hit-u.ac.jp)

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Naoko Hashimoto (MSt, LLM, PhD)

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Email: <naoko.hashimoto@r.hit-u.ac.jp>



Research Associate / Dissertation Supervisor

Refugee Law Initiative, University of London

https://rli.sas.ac.uk/about-us/research-affiliates/dr-naoko-hashimoto
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