Ayelet Shachar

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Picking Winners: Olympic Citizenship and the Global Race for Talent

120 Yale L.J. 2088 (2011).  Across the globe, countries are promoting strategic or expedited passport grants, whereby membership is invested in exceptionally talented individuals with the expectation of receiving a return: for Olympic recruits, this means medals. The spread of the talent-for-citizenship exchange, with “Olympic citizenship” as its apex, is one of the most significant innovations in citizenship practice in the past...

Jun 1, 2011
Feature

Picking Winners: Olympic Citizenship and the Global Race for Talent

120 Yale L.J. 2088 (2011).  Across the globe, countries are promoting strategic or expedited passport grants, whereby membership is invested in exceptionally talented individuals with the expectation of receiving a return: for Olympic recruits, this means medals. The spread of the talent-for-citizenship exchange, with “Olympic citizenship” as its apex, is one of the most significant innovations in citizenship practice in...

May 17, 2011