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

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

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Author / Creator:	Torpey, John, 1959- author.
Edition:	Second edition.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xix, 255 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society.
Subject:	Passports -- United States. Freedom of movement -- United States. Passports -- Europe, Western. Freedom of movement -- Europe, Western. Freedom of movement. Passports. Europe, Western. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11694265

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ISBN:	9781108473903 1108473903 9781108462945 1108462944
Notes:	"First published 2000" -- title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-246) and index.
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"--

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