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- Title
Not Yours to Sell: The Case Against Private Citizenship Markets.
- Authors
Erez, Lior
- Abstract
Should it be permissible for individuals to sell their own citizenship? In brief: no. Against recent defenses of the idea of private citizenship markets, I argue that these markets cannot be legitimately established. First, I examine existing arguments in the literature in support of such markets, and argue that they do not present sufficient reasons for justifying the establishment of private citizenship markets. Second, I argue that the very idea of private citizenship markets is a non-starter, as the privatization of citizenship allocation undermines the justification for the collective right to exclude from membership. As a result, the case for private citizenship markets fails. Finally, I consider some possible objections to my argument and potential implications of it beyond the case of private citizenship markets.
- Subjects
CITIZENSHIP; PRIVATIZATION; RIGHT to self-determination; EMIGRATION &; immigration; POLITICAL autonomy
- Publication
Political Research Quarterly, 2023, Vol 76, Issue 3, p1089
- ISSN
1065-9129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10659129221119763