The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state

Author(s)

• Torpey, John C.

Bibliographic Information

The invention of the passport : surveillance, citizenship and the state

John C. Torpey

（Cambridge studies in law and society）

Cambridge University Press, 2018

2nd ed

• : pbk
• : hardback

Note

Summary: "In an obscure paragraph of a package of immigration reforms adopted in 1996, the United States government committed itself to developing "an automated system to track the entry and exit of all non-citizens, thus providing a way of identifying immigrants who stay longer than their visas allow." At the time that the legislation was supposed to be put into effect, however, some in the government came to regard this measure as likely to cause undue complications for millions of border- crossers, and the implementation of the law was postponed for two and a half years"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-246) and index

Contents of Works

• Coming and going : on the state monopolization of the legitimate "means of movement"
• "Argus of the Patrie" : the passport question in the French Revolution
• Sweeping out Augeas's Stable : the nineteenth-century trend toward Freedom of Movement
• Toward the "Crustacean type of nation" : the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth century to the First Wolrd War
• From national to post-national? Passports and constraints on movement from the interwar to the postwar era
• "Everything changed that day" : passport regulations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to their implementation. The author argues that modern nation-states and the international state system have 'monopolized the 'legitimate means of movement',' rendering persons dependent on states' authority to move about - especially, though not exclusively, across international boundaries. This new edition reviews other scholarship, much of which was stimulated by the first edition, addressing the place of identification documents in contemporary life. It also updates the story of passport regulations from the publication of the first edition, which appeared just before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to the present day.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the second edition
• Introduction
• 1. Coming and going: on the state monopolization of the legitimate 'means of movement'
• 2. 'Argus of the Patrie': the passport question in the French Revolution
• 3. Sweeping out Augeas's stable: the nineteenth-century trend toward freedom of movement
• 4. Toward the 'crustacean type of nation': the proliferation of identification documents from the late nineteenth century to the First World War
• 5. From national to postnational? Passports and constraints on movement from the interwar to the postwar era
• 6. 'Everything changed that day': passport regulations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
• Conclusion: a typology of 'papers'
• References
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BB26846489
• ISBN:
  • 9781108462945
  • 9781108473903
• LCCN: 2018017263
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 255 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : K3273
  • DC23 : 323.6/70973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Passports -- United States
  • LCSH : Freedom of movement -- United States
  • LCSH : Passports -- Europe, Western
  • LCSH : Freedom of movement -- Europe, Western
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA36248500