Kristin Surak

TL;DR: The authors investigates the demand for citizenship by investment programs, which enable naturalisation based on a donation or donation or tax-free investment in peripheral countries, and investigates the reasons why wealthy people purchase citizenship in these countries.

TL;DR: A taxonomy of the ways states partner with migration industries based on the nature of their relationship (formal or informal) and the type of actor involved (for-profit or non-profit) is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish three theoretical accounts of convergence: global-institutionalist, liberal-democratic, and problem-solving perspectives and examine trends in foreigners' rights in Japan since World War II in three domains: entrance, rights of residents, and citizenship.

TL;DR: In this paper, three types of categorization processes at play: we-they distinctions are made across ethnonational groups, these distinctions are further specified by linking them with non-ethnonational categories such as gender and class, and differentiations are made within the same category by distinguishing exemplary from less exemplary members of the category.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of the tea ceremony in the formation and maintenance of the Japanese nation, and found that the practice became a potent symbol of the nation while undergoing a radical transformation of its carriers, as what was once an aesthetic pastime of elite men has survived into the twenty-first century as a hobby of middle class women.