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The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

By John Torpey

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521632498, 9780521632492, 0521634938, 9780521634939, 9780511520990
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5781821 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Edition
1
Pages
223\223
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and noncitizens. It explains how the concept of citizenship has been used over the past 200 years to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. Focusing on the United States and Western Europe, it combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have established the exclusive right to authorize and regulate the movement of people.

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