The Invention Of The Passport

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521634938

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The Invention of the Passport by John Torpey Pdf

In order to distinguish between those who may and may not enter or leave, states everywhere have developed extensive systems of identification, central to which is the passport. This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and non-citizens. It examines how the concept of citizenship has been used to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. It focuses on the US and Western Europe, moving from revolutionary France to the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, the British industrial revolution, pre-World War I Italy, the reign of Germany's Third Reich and beyond. This innovative study combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have established the exclusive right to authorize and regulate the movement of people.

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108473903

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The definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world.

Author : Craig Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199779895

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The Passport in America by Craig Robertson Pdf

In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become an indispensable document. But how and why did this form of identification take on such a crucial role? In the first history of the passport in the United States, Craig Robertson offers an illuminating account of how this document, above all others, came to be considered a reliable answer to the question: who are you? Historically, the passport originated as an official letter of introduction addressed to foreign governments on behalf of American travelers, but as Robertson shows, it became entangled in contemporary negotiations over citizenship and other forms of identity documentation. Prior to World War I, passports were not required to cross American borders, and while some people struggled to understand how a passport could accurately identify a person, others took advantage of this new document to advance claims for citizenship. From the strategic use of passport applications by freed slaves and a campaign to allow married women to get passports in their maiden names, to the "passport nuisance" of the 1920s and the contested addition of photographs and other identification technologies on the passport, Robertson sheds new light on issues of individual and national identity in modern U.S. history. In this age of heightened security, especially at international borders, Robertson's The Passport in America provides anyone interested in questions of identification and surveillance with a richly detailed, and often surprising, history of this uniquely important document.

Author : Martin Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Passports
ISBN : 0954715039

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The Passport by Martin Lloyd Pdf

Author : John C. Torpey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108591898

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The Invention of the Passport by John C. Torpey Pdf

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.

Author : Jelena Džankić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030176327

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The Global Market for Investor Citizenship by Jelena Džankić Pdf

This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes. It explores how states develop new rules of joining their community in response to globalisation and highlights the tension between citizenship policies aimed at migrant integration and those, such as the sale of passports, which create ‘long-distance citizens’. Individual chapters offer insights in the historical relationship between citizenship, money and property; discuss arguments that support and counter the practice of the sale of citizenship; and examine the interests and strategies of the different actors—states, companies, individuals—that constitute the ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ sides of the burgeoning citizenship industry. The book provides a global overview of the market for investor citizenship as well as a separate policy analysis of the sale of citizenship and residence in the European Union.

Author : Amitava Kumar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780520922686

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Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar Pdf

Passport Photos, a self-conscious act of artistic and intellectual forgery, is a report on the immigrant condition. A multigenre book combining theory, poetry, cultural criticism, and photography, it explores the complexities of the immigration experience, intervening in the impersonal language of the state. Passport Photos joins books by writers like Edward Said and Trinh T. Minh-ha in the search for a new poetics and politics of diaspora. Organized as a passport, Passport Photos is a unique work, taking as its object of analysis and engagement the lived experience of post-coloniality--especially in the United States and India. The book is a collage, moving back and forth between places, historical moments, voices, and levels of analysis. Seeking to link cultural, political, and aesthetic critiques, it weaves together issues as diverse as Indian fiction written in English, signs put up by the border patrol at the U.S.-Tijuana border, ethnic restaurants in New York City, the history of Indian indenture in Trinidad, Native Americans at the Superbowl, and much more. The borders this book crosses again and again are those where critical theory meets popular journalism, and where political poetry encounters the work of documentary photography. The argument for such border crossings lies in the reality of people's lives. This thought-provoking book explores that reality, as it brings postcolonial theory to a personal level and investigates global influences on local lives of immigrants.

Author : Tarangini Sriraman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199094080

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In Pursuit of Proof by Tarangini Sriraman Pdf

Weaving together a hitherto unattempted history of making and verifying identification documents, In Pursuit of Proof tells stories from the ground about the urban margins of India, and Delhi in particular. The book moves with agility across the late colonial era and the postcolonial years marked by ration cards, refugee registration certificates, permits, licences, and affidavits. How did the ration card, introduced during the Second World War, crystallize into proof of residence? After the Partition, how did the Indian state classify refugees as poor, displaced, and lower caste? Might there be alternative conceptualizations of the much-maligned ‘Licence Raj’? How does proof manifest itself for those living in Delhi’s slums? And how does the unique identification number, termed the Aadhaar, impinge on rural migrants dwelling in the city? Relying on intensive ethnographic and archival methods, the book answers these questions and theorizes the Indian state as one whose welfare capacities of governing are drawn from popular knowledge practices of documenting and proving identities.

Author : Jane Caplan,John Torpey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691009120

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Documenting Individual Identity by Jane Caplan,John Torpey Pdf

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Author : Cas Mudde
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509536856

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The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde Pdf

The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil, India, and the United States – now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913380052

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Passport to Peckham by Robert Hewison Pdf

An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living. “Is there life in Peckham?” asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London—social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham’s streets and presents the portrait of a community experiencing the stresses of modern living. Old and new residents rub against each other as they try to adjust to the challenges created by urban regeneration and the more subtle process of gentrification. Artists have lived and worked in Peckham for more than a century, and now Caribbean and West African communities are adding their own flavors in terms of music, drama, poetry, and film. Focused on a few square miles, Passport to Peckham raises issues of urban policy, planning, culture, and creativity that have a far wider application. As London and other major cities recover from the COVID crisis, are there lessons in urban living to be learned from the pleasures and pains of Peckham? The answer from one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics is an emphatic yes.

Author : Daniel C. Turack
Publisher : Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011730788

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The Passport in International Law by Daniel C. Turack Pdf

Author : Noora Lori
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108498173

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Offshore Citizens by Noora Lori Pdf

This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.

Author : Mira L. Siegelberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674240513

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Statelessness by Mira L. Siegelberg Pdf

The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens. Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg’s innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless persons, to explore how and why the problem of statelessness compelled a new understanding of the international order in the twentieth century and beyond. In the years following the First World War, the legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of cosmopolitan political and legal organization and challenged efforts to limit the boundaries of national membership and international authority. Yet, as Siegelberg shows, the emergence of mass statelessness ultimately gave rise to the rights regime created after World War II, which empowered the territorial state as the fundamental source of protection and rights, against alternative political configurations. Today we live with the results: more than twelve million people are stateless and millions more belong to categories of recent invention, including refugees and asylum seekers. By uncovering the ideological origins of the international agreements that define categories of citizenship and non-citizenship, Statelessness better equips us to confront current dilemmas of political organization and authority at the global level.

Author : Thornton Bell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359470631

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I Am Saved - Dominique Carter by Thornton Bell Pdf

Moving from childhood to adult can sometimes be frightening. But God has a plan for our lives. That is why He sent His only begotten Son - JESUS. I'm am so glad I became an adult and gave my life to Christ. This book is both a guide and journal for my journey.