The study of human migration has traditionally focused on less powerful and possibly vulnerable populations such as refugees, labor migrants, marriage migrants, and others. However, elites are highly mobile too – and are perhaps the global movers par excellence. How does the study of the wealthy upend our basic assumptions about global migration? This talk draws on over a decade of fieldwork in more than twenty countries to expose the dynamics of elite mobility. Extending from the book The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires, it cracks open the global market around the sale of citizenship to the rich buyers to reveal an unexpected story about rights, identity, and inequality. Indeed, traveling the world of golden passports challenges us to reconsider our fundamental assumptions about mobility, membership, and globalization and suggests how our own futures may be reconfigured.