Kristin Surak
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108189 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kristin Surak |
| NOMBRES | Kristin |
| APELLIDO | Surak |
| FIRMA | SURAK K |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5064-2579 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers
How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? And how is such offshore wealth structuring itself variably organized? Moving beyond conceptualizations of offshore as concerning only individual tax havens, this article investigates offshore wealth structuring as a fundamentally relational practice to supply the first systematic image of the patterns between two key layers of offshore s…
Myths at Work
This article analyzes a day-long tea service at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo to unpack how people can uncritically replicate myths that subdue recognition of imperialist aggression. Extending the work of Roland Barthes, it identifies how myths can operate through objects grouped as a set, deployed in space, and used in interaction. Meanings attributed to objects both in their singularity and as members of a collection – a dual layering of semiotic in…
Global Fields and Migration Regimes
In the past decade, scholars of international migration have made remarkable strides in unpacking the complex infrastructures that channel cross-border mobility by investigating the operation of profit-oriented migration industries and the regulatory tussles of multilevel migration governance. However, little work has combined the insights of both to reveal how they interact to facilitate or inhibit the growth of particular migration regimes. Thi…
Mercantilização da cidadania e desigualdades globais
Commodification of citizenship and global inequalities
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs
Increasingly countries are adopting programs that allow investors to qualify for citizenship based on the purchase of real estate, bonds, or businesses, or on a donation to the government. States often cite economic need behind their implementation of such 'citizenship by investment' (CBI) schemes, yet little research has analyzed their economic impacts. Does the sale of citizenship bring positive economic benefits? To answer this question, this …
Citoyenneté à vendre
Cet article étudie la manière dont les États commercialisent une prérogative souveraine en accordant la citoyenneté en échange d'un don ou d'un investissement à l'intérieur d'un marché concurrentiel. S'appuyant sur huit années d'enquête de terrain dans seize pays, il explique d'abord comment l'État transforme l'octroi de la citoyenneté pour devenir un acteur crédible du marché. Il examine ensuite comment les logiques de marché reconfigurent les s…
Citizenship and Residence Sales
Citizenship and residence by investment is a fast-growing global phenomenon. As of 2022, more than a third of all countries in the world offered paths to membership in exchange for a donation or investment into their economies. Yet we know little about how these programmes operate and debates in academia and the wider public are often misinformed by sensationalist cases. This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of both citizenship and res…
The Golden Passport
Golden Passport
Citizenship and Residence Sales
Marketizing Sovereign Prerogatives
How is a sovereign prerogative brought to market? We know much about how states shape markets and vice versa, but less about the dynamics when states not only set market rules, but are also the sole producer of the good. This article takes up the case of citizenship by investment-"golden passport" programs that offer citizenship in recognition of an investment in a country-to unpack the challenges that appear when states commodify sovereign prero…
Millionaire mobility and the sale of citizenship
Why do wealthy people purchase citizenship in peripheral countries? This article investigates the demand for citizenship by investment programmes, which enable naturalisation based on a donation or financial investment. Extending research on long-distance naturalisation among the middle class and on residence by investment programmes, I examine the motives of the wealthy using citizenship by investment options. Based on over one hundred interview…
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU
Residence by investment (RBI) programmes, or 'golden visa' schemes, are now found in half of European Union member states. Yet no empirical studies have tested the economic drivers or impacts of these programmes. Filling this lacuna, this article supplies the first comparative quantitative evaluation of the economic origins and outcomes of so-called golden visa programmes in the European Union. Utilising new data, we show that governments across …
For a Global Social Science
Who wants to buy a visa? Comparing the uptake of residence by investment programs in the European Union
The European Union has seen a proliferation of ‘golden visa’ programs that allow investors to gain residence in a country in exchange for a financial contribution. Despite substantial attention from Brussels and the media, no empirical study to date has systematically compared the outcomes of these increasingly popular schemes. Drawing on new government and public sources supplemented by interviews, this article offers the first comparison of the…
Rebecca Corbett. Cultivating Femininity
Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan, by Rebecca Corbett, and Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period, by Taka Oshikiri, contribute to the recent trend in Japanese tea ceremony historiography of recovering the multiplicity of tea practices and practitioners beyond the canonized histories of great men and grand tea masters. Corbett’s Cultivating Femininity supplies the f…
Migration Industries and the State
Studies of migration industries have demonstrated the critical role that border-spanning businesses play in international mobility. To date, most research has focused on meso-level entrepreneurial initiatives that operate in a legal gray area under a state that provides an environment for their growth or decline. Extending this work, the present article advances a taxonomy of the ways states partner with migration industries based on the nature o…
Migration Industries and the State
At the Margins of Multiculturalism
Will Kymlicka's theories of multiculturalism have gained wide interest in the West but only recently have been applied beyond it. This research note assesses whether a Kymlickian approach provides traction for grasping the configuration of nondominant ethnic groupings in Japan and how they have achieved a degree of multicultural recognition. It first identifies equivalents and exceptions within the Japanese case to Kymlicka's key groupings: natio…
Rupture and Rhythm
This article investigates how people make sense of ruptures in the flow of everyday life as they enter new experiential domains. Shifts in being-in-time create breaks in the natural attitude that offer the opportunity to register national-or, for example, religious, gender, or class-experiences. People interpret ruptures in perception and proprioception by drawing connections with domains in which similar or contrasting kinds of disruption are ev…
Re-selling Japan
Guestworkers
A typology of Gastarbeiter programmes and their function in capitalist labour regimes, from Wilhelmine Prussia to the Gulf monarchies. Side effects of attempts to import a disposable reserve army of labour, and the tensions they provoke between capital accumulation and state legitimacy
Making Tea, Making Japan
The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a …
Nation-Work
This article bridges the literatures on nationalist projects and everyday nationhood by elucidating a repertoire of actions shared by both. Analysis of such “nation-work” contributes to the cognitive turn in ethnicity and nationalism research by showing how ethnonational categorization operates. Examining variation in this domain shows that though nationalism may project an image of a homogeneous “we”, internal heterogeneity is crucial for refini…
Millionaire mobility and the sale of citizenship
Why do wealthy people purchase citizenship in peripheral countries? This article investigates the demand for citizenship by investment programmes, which enable naturalisation based on a donation or financial investment. Extending research on long-distance naturalisation among the middle class and on residence by investment programmes, I examine the motives of the wealthy using citizenship by investment options. Based on over one hundred interview…
Migration Industries and the State
Studies of migration industries have demonstrated the critical role that border-spanning businesses play in international mobility. To date, most research has focused on meso-level entrepreneurial initiatives that operate in a legal gray area under a state that provides an environment for their growth or decline. Extending this work, the present article advances a taxonomy of the ways states partner with migration industries based on the nature o…
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU
Residence by investment (RBI) programmes, or 'golden visa' schemes, are now found in half of European Union member states. Yet no empirical studies have tested the economic drivers or impacts of these programmes. Filling this lacuna, this article supplies the first comparative quantitative evaluation of the economic origins and outcomes of so-called golden visa programmes in the European Union. Utilising new data, we show that governments across …
Convergence in Foreigners' Rights and Citizenship Policies? A Look at Japan
Citizenship laws and immigrant rights in rich, democratic countries are widely understood to be converging. Since most accounts of convergence are based on Western examples, Japan is an important test case. I distinguish three theoretical accounts of convergence: global-institutionalist, liberal-democratic, and problem-solving perspectives. I then examine trends in foreigners' rights in Japan since World War II in three domains: entrance, rights …
Nation-Work
This article bridges the literatures on nationalist projects and everyday nationhood by elucidating a repertoire of actions shared by both. Analysis of such “nation-work” contributes to the cognitive turn in ethnicity and nationalism research by showing how ethnonational categorization operates. Examining variation in this domain shows that though nationalism may project an image of a homogeneous “we”, internal heterogeneity is crucial for refini…
From Selling Tea to Selling Japaneseness
This article investigates how institutions of cultural production become invested in the national meanings of their products and employ these associations for their own reproduction and expansion. The case I take is of the tea ceremony in Japan, from its pre-modern origins, through its capture by the organizational form of theiemotosystem, and to its contemporary projection as a quintessence of Japaneseness. The ritual offers a particularly vivid…
Rupture and Rhythm
This article investigates how people make sense of ruptures in the flow of everyday life as they enter new experiential domains. Shifts in being-in-time create breaks in the natural attitude that offer the opportunity to register national-or, for example, religious, gender, or class-experiences. People interpret ruptures in perception and proprioception by drawing connections with domains in which similar or contrasting kinds of disruption are ev…
Guestworkers
A typology of Gastarbeiter programmes and their function in capitalist labour regimes, from Wilhelmine Prussia to the Gulf monarchies. Side effects of attempts to import a disposable reserve army of labour, and the tensions they provoke between capital accumulation and state legitimacy
Who wants to buy a visa? Comparing the uptake of residence by investment programs in the European Union
The European Union has seen a proliferation of ‘golden visa’ programs that allow investors to gain residence in a country in exchange for a financial contribution. Despite substantial attention from Brussels and the media, no empirical study to date has systematically compared the outcomes of these increasingly popular schemes. Drawing on new government and public sources supplemented by interviews, this article offers the first comparison of the…
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs
Increasingly countries are adopting programs that allow investors to qualify for citizenship based on the purchase of real estate, bonds, or businesses, or on a donation to the government. States often cite economic need behind their implementation of such 'citizenship by investment' (CBI) schemes, yet little research has analyzed their economic impacts. Does the sale of citizenship bring positive economic benefits? To answer this question, this …
Marketizing Sovereign Prerogatives
How is a sovereign prerogative brought to market? We know much about how states shape markets and vice versa, but less about the dynamics when states not only set market rules, but are also the sole producer of the good. This article takes up the case of citizenship by investment-"golden passport" programs that offer citizenship in recognition of an investment in a country-to unpack the challenges that appear when states commodify sovereign prero…
Ethnic practices' in translation
In this article I examine the specific dynamics shaping and forming migrant "ethnic practices". A comparison of tea ceremony in Japan and the US provides a particularly interesting site since its philosophy promotes universalism and adaptation to the surrounding environment in Japan and the US. I first briefly examine how tea is seen as quintessentially Japanese in Japan through cultural objectification, a process that disassociates it from every…
Citoyenneté à vendre
Cet article étudie la manière dont les États commercialisent une prérogative souveraine en accordant la citoyenneté en échange d'un don ou d'un investissement à l'intérieur d'un marché concurrentiel. S'appuyant sur huit années d'enquête de terrain dans seize pays, il explique d'abord comment l'État transforme l'octroi de la citoyenneté pour devenir un acteur crédible du marché. Il examine ensuite comment les logiques de marché reconfigurent les s…
Migration Industries and the State
Ethnic practices' in translation
In this article I examine the specific dynamics shaping and forming migrant "ethnic practices". A comparison of tea ceremony in Japan and the US provides a particularly interesting site since its philosophy promotes universalism and adaptation to the surrounding environment in Japan and the US. I first briefly examine how tea is seen as quintessentially Japanese in Japan through cultural objectification, a process that disassociates it from every…
Convergence in Foreigners' Rights and Citizenship Policies? A Look at Japan
Citizenship laws and immigrant rights in rich, democratic countries are widely understood to be converging. Since most accounts of convergence are based on Western examples, Japan is an important test case. I distinguish three theoretical accounts of convergence: global-institutionalist, liberal-democratic, and problem-solving perspectives. I then examine trends in foreigners' rights in Japan since World War II in three domains: entrance, rights …
The Business of Belonging
A critical review of Ethnicity, Inc by Jean and John Comaroff
From Selling Tea to Selling Japaneseness
This article investigates how institutions of cultural production become invested in the national meanings of their products and employ these associations for their own reproduction and expansion. The case I take is of the tea ceremony in Japan, from its pre-modern origins, through its capture by the organizational form of theiemotosystem, and to its contemporary projection as a quintessence of Japaneseness. The ritual offers a particularly vivid…
Making Tea, Making Japan
The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a …
Nation-Work
This article bridges the literatures on nationalist projects and everyday nationhood by elucidating a repertoire of actions shared by both. Analysis of such “nation-work” contributes to the cognitive turn in ethnicity and nationalism research by showing how ethnonational categorization operates. Examining variation in this domain shows that though nationalism may project an image of a homogeneous “we”, internal heterogeneity is crucial for refini…
Guestworkers
A typology of Gastarbeiter programmes and their function in capitalist labour regimes, from Wilhelmine Prussia to the Gulf monarchies. Side effects of attempts to import a disposable reserve army of labour, and the tensions they provoke between capital accumulation and state legitimacy
Re-selling Japan
At the Margins of Multiculturalism
Will Kymlicka's theories of multiculturalism have gained wide interest in the West but only recently have been applied beyond it. This research note assesses whether a Kymlickian approach provides traction for grasping the configuration of nondominant ethnic groupings in Japan and how they have achieved a degree of multicultural recognition. It first identifies equivalents and exceptions within the Japanese case to Kymlicka's key groupings: natio…
Rupture and Rhythm
This article investigates how people make sense of ruptures in the flow of everyday life as they enter new experiential domains. Shifts in being-in-time create breaks in the natural attitude that offer the opportunity to register national-or, for example, religious, gender, or class-experiences. People interpret ruptures in perception and proprioception by drawing connections with domains in which similar or contrasting kinds of disruption are ev…
Migration Industries and the State
Studies of migration industries have demonstrated the critical role that border-spanning businesses play in international mobility. To date, most research has focused on meso-level entrepreneurial initiatives that operate in a legal gray area under a state that provides an environment for their growth or decline. Extending this work, the present article advances a taxonomy of the ways states partner with migration industries based on the nature o…
Migration Industries and the State
Rebecca Corbett. Cultivating Femininity
Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan, by Rebecca Corbett, and Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period, by Taka Oshikiri, contribute to the recent trend in Japanese tea ceremony historiography of recovering the multiplicity of tea practices and practitioners beyond the canonized histories of great men and grand tea masters. Corbett’s Cultivating Femininity supplies the f…
For a Global Social Science
Who wants to buy a visa? Comparing the uptake of residence by investment programs in the European Union
The European Union has seen a proliferation of ‘golden visa’ programs that allow investors to gain residence in a country in exchange for a financial contribution. Despite substantial attention from Brussels and the media, no empirical study to date has systematically compared the outcomes of these increasingly popular schemes. Drawing on new government and public sources supplemented by interviews, this article offers the first comparison of the…
Marketizing Sovereign Prerogatives
How is a sovereign prerogative brought to market? We know much about how states shape markets and vice versa, but less about the dynamics when states not only set market rules, but are also the sole producer of the good. This article takes up the case of citizenship by investment-"golden passport" programs that offer citizenship in recognition of an investment in a country-to unpack the challenges that appear when states commodify sovereign prero…
Millionaire mobility and the sale of citizenship
Why do wealthy people purchase citizenship in peripheral countries? This article investigates the demand for citizenship by investment programmes, which enable naturalisation based on a donation or financial investment. Extending research on long-distance naturalisation among the middle class and on residence by investment programmes, I examine the motives of the wealthy using citizenship by investment options. Based on over one hundred interview…
Are golden visas a golden opportunity? Assessing the economic origins and outcomes of residence by investment programmes in the EU
Residence by investment (RBI) programmes, or 'golden visa' schemes, are now found in half of European Union member states. Yet no empirical studies have tested the economic drivers or impacts of these programmes. Filling this lacuna, this article supplies the first comparative quantitative evaluation of the economic origins and outcomes of so-called golden visa programmes in the European Union. Utilising new data, we show that governments across …
Citizenship and Residence Sales
Citizenship and residence by investment is a fast-growing global phenomenon. As of 2022, more than a third of all countries in the world offered paths to membership in exchange for a donation or investment into their economies. Yet we know little about how these programmes operate and debates in academia and the wider public are often misinformed by sensationalist cases. This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of both citizenship and res…
The Golden Passport
Golden Passport
Citizenship and Residence Sales
Mercantilização da cidadania e desigualdades globais
Commodification of citizenship and global inequalities
Do passports pay off? Assessing the economic outcomes of citizenship by investment programs
Increasingly countries are adopting programs that allow investors to qualify for citizenship based on the purchase of real estate, bonds, or businesses, or on a donation to the government. States often cite economic need behind their implementation of such 'citizenship by investment' (CBI) schemes, yet little research has analyzed their economic impacts. Does the sale of citizenship bring positive economic benefits? To answer this question, this …
Political science (16 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 obras) · Citizenship (7 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · History (6 obras)