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The little booklets we use to cross borders and take a vacation abroad didn't always exist. So where did they come from? Stories of privilege, control and belonging are hidden in the watermarked pages of our passports.

For this episode of the podcast, Rachel and Charli travel to a little country with a complicated past, where they find some unexpected pieces of the puzzle – from citizenship to micronations to cold hard cash.

What does your passport mean to you?

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Interviewees featured in this episode:

Hermine Diebolt, United Nations Archives, Geneva
Zoran Stavrevski, Free Walking Tours Skopje
Aisha El Nahas
Valentin Rakip
Aleksandra Efremova, Macedonian Young Lawyers Association
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Journalist and author of "Cosmopolites"
Ana Petruseva, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network

This episode was written and produced by Charli Shield and Rachel Stewart. It was edited by Sam Baker. Fact checking was by Rayna Breuer and Katharina Abel, and Julia Rose dug into the archives for us. Sound design was by Nico Maas, final mix by Phillip Rabenstein and additional help from Chris Caurla. A big thanks to all our interviewees, as well as Speranta Dumitru, John Torpey, Arshak Makichan and Nadine Mena Michollek for their time and insights.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:09 Toasting a new citizenship
03:36 How the passport came to be
09:03 The meaning of the passport
09:56 Cultural clues in North Macedonia
13:30 Passport power: Wheel of Fortune
16:26 Statelessness today
22:35 A historical solution
24:17 Buying your way in
31:38 Why citizenship needs a shake-up
33:55 Micronations and a trip to Vevcani