Citizenship for Sale: Neomedieval, not Just Neoliberal?

Opponents of commodification say that some things should not be for sale. Is citizenship one of them? Citizenship-by-investment schemes of naturalization allow investors virtually to buy citizenship. Revisiting objections to the older practice of selling another civic statusnoble statusunderscores many reasons why this trade may be regarded as problematic. The practice of selling citizenship is not only similar to that of selling honours but might also be thought wrong in analogous ways.