Book contents
- Money Matters in Migration
- Money Matters in Migration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Money Matters in Migration: A Synthetic Approach
- Part I Migration
- Part II Participation
- Part III Citizenship
- 14 Millionaires and Mobility: Inequality and Investment Migration Programs
- 15 Are Citizenship by Investment Programs Legitimate? Suggesting Some Assessment Methods
- 16 Wealth as a Golden Visa to Citizenship
- 17 Divided Families and Devalued Citizens: Money Matters in Mixed-Status Families in the Netherlands
- 18 Money in Internal Migration: Financial Resources and Unequal Citizenship
- Index
- References
18 - Money in Internal Migration: Financial Resources and Unequal Citizenship
from Part III - Citizenship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- Money Matters in Migration
- Money Matters in Migration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Money Matters in Migration: A Synthetic Approach
- Part I Migration
- Part II Participation
- Part III Citizenship
- 14 Millionaires and Mobility: Inequality and Investment Migration Programs
- 15 Are Citizenship by Investment Programs Legitimate? Suggesting Some Assessment Methods
- 16 Wealth as a Golden Visa to Citizenship
- 17 Divided Families and Devalued Citizens: Money Matters in Mixed-Status Families in the Netherlands
- 18 Money in Internal Migration: Financial Resources and Unequal Citizenship
- Index
- References
Summary
Money facilitates or inhibits not only international migration but also the movement of people within a political system, known as internal migration. Despite the ideal of equal citizenship, examples from around the world demonstrate that the movement of citizens across internal boundaries is not always free; central governments must strive to guarantee the rights of internal migrants. Governments at all levels (not just national level) generally value rich or otherwise desirable migrants while generally fearing or shunning poor or undesirable migrants. Money often makes the difference between being wanted or unwanted – and this holds true even when the prospective migrants are internal migrants with shared rights and citizenship. Housing restrictions, efforts to attract well-off residents, and limits on mobility for those needing public assistance are only some ways in which money acts as barrier or incentive to internal migration. These various roles of money in internal migration demonstrate the ways in which financial disparities and conditions exist in tension with ideas of equal citizenship.
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- Money Matters in MigrationPolicy, Participation, and Citizenship, pp. 317 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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