Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: The Invention of the Passport (Paperback)

Professor of Sociology John Torpey
Cambridge University Press
 9780521634939
0-521-63493-8

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.

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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.