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  Citizenship for Sale: Passports of Convenience from Pacific Island Tax Havens
 
 
Title: Citizenship for Sale: Passports of Convenience from Pacific Island Tax Havens
Author: Van Fossen, Anthony
Appeared in: Commonwealth & comparative politics
Paging: Volume 45 (2007) nr. 2 pages 138-163
Year: 2007-04
Contents: Pacific Island tax havens have apparently collected $153,450,000 from (mostly ethnic Chinese) purchasers of passports. This paper considers the evolution of passport sales in Tonga, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu and Nauru and internal and international opposition to them. Tension exists between different conceptions of citizenship within the world-system. Sales reflect classical liberal, individualistic, free market conceptions of citizenship. Opponents invoke both conservative and democratic conceptions of citizenship. This paper favours democratic solutions to many problems sales create. Sales schemes involve secrecy and corruption which attenuates following exposure by media, opposition politicians, watchdogs and crusaders against international terrorism. Pacific Island havens currently have no legal, official passport sales schemes, but this paper demonstrates that sales probably continue.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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