Buying and Selling Citizenship

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 10, 2015

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, editor and contributor at The New Inquiry, a contributing editor to Dissent magazine and the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports, 2015), follows the money when it comes to how the global economy is affecting acquiring citizenships -- from millionaires to guest workers.

→ Event: Abrahamian will appear in conversation with Nicholas Lemann, former dean of the Columbia Journalism School and director of Columbia Global Reports, at BookCourt in Brooklyn on November 12 at 7pm. Click here for more details.

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