John C. Torpey: The Invention of the Passport

Cover: 9781108462945 | The Invention of the Passport | John C. Torpey | Taschenbuch | 2019

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"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"--

Über den Autor

John C. Torpey is Presidential Professor of Sociology and History and the Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before coming to the Graduate Center, he was an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Previously he was an Assistant Professor and the Chair of the International Studies Faculty Board at the University of California, Irvine. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Marshall Fund, the European University Institute (Florence), and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts. His other publications include Intellectuals, Socialism and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy (1995), Documenting Individual Identity (2001, coedited with Jane Caplan), Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (2006), Transformations of Warfare in the Modern World (2016, coedited with David Jacobson), and The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental (2017), as well as numerous articles in such journals as Theory and Society, Journal of Modern History, Sociological Theory, and Genèses: Sciences sociales et histoire. In 2016-2017, he was President of the Eastern Sociological Society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781108462945
ISBN-10:	1108462944
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Torpey, John C.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	John C. Torpey
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.03.2019
Gewicht:	0,465 kg

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