TY - CHAP A1 - Sarmiento, Daniel A1 - van den Brink, Martijn A2 - Kochenov, Dimitry A2 - Surak, Kristin T1 - EU competence and investor migration T2 - Citizenship and Residence Sales: Rethinking the Boundaries of Belonging N2 - In this chapter, we examine the issue of competence to confer residence and citizenship based on a donation or investment in the light of international and European law as they stand today. We show that the national competence to do this is part of the sovereign nature of the modern state, which implies the ability to create a people and delimit the scope of the population granted a right to settle in the national territory, underpinned by rules behind such delimitation. We also explain why investment migration per se cannot be presented as unlawful and outlines the avenues for the eventual disciplining of its offshoots in areas unrelated to migration as such, thus connecting particularly well with Peter Spiro’s analysis of relevant international law. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4953 SN - 9781108492874 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108675123.009 SP - 183 EP - 206 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER -