4 | No Man’s Land with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

The UAE’s recent decision to grant citizenship to those it deems worthy (or wealthy) enough is only the latest example of how cities and nations are waging a war of all-against-all for global talent in the post-COVID era. Whether it’s the mayor of Miami soliciting VCs and startups to emigrate from Silicon Valley, Helsinki launching a “90-day Finn” campaign to smooth the way for talent, or the proliferation of “nomad visas” by the likes of Estonia, Bermuda, and Barbados, governments are positioning themselves as pandemic destinations. The Cosmopolites author Atossa Araxia Abrahamian joins us on threesixtyCITY to discuss the confluence of quarantines, quality of life, and citizenship-for-sale.