There’s a massive gap between the most and least powerful passports, which has big implications for where people can travel, reside and work, says this academic.
Rushdie had already published dozens of works, including novels, short stories, essays and travelogues, to wide acclaim and considerable controversy. But he acknowledged that it was his British passport, doing “its stuff efficiently and unobtrusively”, that enabled him to pursue a literary career on the world stage.
Travellers line up at the immigration at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Philippines on Jan 24, 2023. Nearly every passport on the index, which includes 193 United Nations member countries and six territories, became more powerful, with holders receiving immediate access to 16 additional countries on average.
Whether we like it or not, our passports define who we are in the geopolitical order. And unsurprisingly,Firms such as Arton Capital and Henley & Partners, the curators of a competing passport ranking index, have arisen in recent years to assess these prospects. They also advise investors, business people and other affluent individuals on ways to attain a second passport when it is advantageous.
In effect, Arton’s passport index has codified the disparity that Rushdie remarked on. Even today, after the Brexit referendum, a UK passport still allows for travel to 173 countries without a prior visa. An Indian passport provides access to just 71.How do we account for the human costs associated with these passport scores and rankings?
Good Passports Bad Passports ends with a remarkable gesture of human solidarity. As a spectral voice proclaims, “I believe that one day national borders won’t exist,” the entire cast steps to the front of the stage, interlocks arms and gazes out into the audience.highlighted these issues in his award-winning 2017 documentary, Human Flow, which captures the overwhelming scale of the migrant crisis.
In 2009, Maltese writer Antoine Cassar published a protest poem titled Passaport, printed in a small format and bound in a red cardboard cover mimicking the Maltese passport.
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