Paper Category: 2016-2022

Anatomy of the Global Wealthy – IMC-RP 2024/1

ABSTRACT In recent decades, the global economy has generated substantial wealth associated with trade integration, financial mobility and pathbreaking technological innovations (internet, artificial intelligence, robotics and blockchains) creating a new class of millionaires, ultra-millionaires, and billionaires of different age-cohorts. The distribution of the economic gains associated to these processes, however, is far from even and […]

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Global Mobility of the Wealthy and their Assets: An Overview – IMC-RP 2018/2

ABSTRACT This paper provides an analytical and empirical overview of the mobility of wealthy individuals and mobility of financial assets (offshore wealth) in a context of economic and geopolitical volatility, increased income inequality and high wealth concentration at the top. Main pulling and pushing factors and patterns of offshore wealth deposits are examined using information […]

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The Re-Invention of Investment Immigration in Canada and Constructions of Canadian Citizenship – MC-RP 2017/2

ABSTRACT This article discusses the evolution of investment immigration in Canada and its impacts upon constructions of Canadian citizenship. Canada has led the way in providing permanent residency to foreign individuals in exchange for an investment. While investor immigration programs in Canada have gone through some changes over the years since it was first established […]

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New-generation Skilled Migration Policies and the Changing Fabric of Membership: Talent as Output and the Headhunting State – IMC-RP 2016/4

ABSTRACT That citizenship is getting lighter is not a new idea. How this is occurring and what its implications are for the fabric of communities is however a question with several facets. This article explores one of these facets. It questions how ‘new generation’ skilled migration policies, with which several states around the globe are […]

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Global Citizenship 2.0 – The Growth of Citizenship by Investment Programs – IMC-RP 2016/3

ABSTRACT What explains the growth of citizenship by investment programs and what are the implications for citizenship more broadly? This paper investigates an under-studied yet rapidly developing avenue for naturalization: jus pecuniae, or the acquisition of citizenship through financial contribution. The existing literature divides between exuberant economists touting the utility of market mechanisms to control political […]

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‘Internal’ Investment Migration: The Case of Investment Migration from Mainland China to Hong Kong – IMC-RP 2016/2

ABSTRACT China is a major source country for immigrant investors. Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, operates one of the most popular investment migration programmes. The Hong Kong ‘Capital Investment Entrant Scheme’ (CIES) was launched in 2003 and has granted residence rights to over 28,000 individuals, until its suspension in 2015. Notably, CIES […]

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