Citizenship for Real: Its Hypocrisy, Its Randomness, Its Price

Abstract

Lawyers and political scientists opposed to the idea of selling citizenship will not have any arguments to support their position, should rich misleading assumptions and selfless rhetorical pirouettes – priceless in fiction writing – useless in legal studies – be removed from their often passionate advocacy. I review the usual rotations lending such pirouettes appeal: of the intrinsic value of citizenship, of equality and nondiscrimination, of the arch-importance of the citizenship’s political components and, finally, of EU law concerns. I come to dismiss them all.