Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University and the author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World and The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen. (May 2025)

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Justice for Chagos?

Decades after the Indian Ocean island colony’s inhabitants were forcibly deported to accommodate an American military base, the ICJ has ruled that they be allowed to return. But is international law sufficient to bring them justice?

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage

by Philippe Sands

Diego Garcia

by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

May 15, 2025 issue

The Right to Belong

Two books explore the history of statelessness and the problems with defining people by their citizenship.

Statelessness: A Modern History

by Mira L. Siegelberg

Citizenship

by Dimitry Kochenov

December 17, 2020 issue

The New Passport-Poor

As the printed papers and analogue technologies that defined travel documents are giving way to intricate biometric scans, we no longer are our papers; rather, our papers become us.

May 21, 2018

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