ISBN:
9781108462945
,
9781108473903
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 255 Seiten
Edition:
Second edition
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Torpey, John C., 1959 - The invention of the passport
DDC:
323.6/70973
Keywords:
Passports
;
Freedom of movement
;
Passports
;
Freedom of movement
;
Passports United States
;
Freedom of movement United States
;
Passports Europe, Western
;
Freedom of movement Europe, Western
;
USA
;
Westeuropa
;
Freizügigkeit
;
Pass
;
Ausweis
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
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 -- From national to postnational? 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
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