Rights of passage : the passport in international relations / Mark B. Salter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salter, Mark B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passports--History.

Passports.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Body, a Soul, and a Passport 1

Security and Mobility 2

Examining Our Papers 3

Not-so-Hidden Agendas 6

2 Passports, Violence, and International Society 11

Ne Exeat Regno 12

Privateers, Princes, and Letters of Marque 16

Colonial Space and Passports 20

Description, Depiction, and Conscription 24

Antipassports 33

Conclusion: The Control of Violent Movements 39

3 Health and the Body Politic 49

The Prince and the Plague 50

Colonialism, Cholera, and Passports 55

New Plagues, the New World Order, and the World Health Organization 63

Conclusion: Health and the Citizen

Disease and the Stranger 69

4 Passports and International Society 77

Formation of the Modern International System 78

Citizenship, Immigration, and the Return of the Repressed 86

Machine-Readable Identity 93

Conclusion: Protecting Whom from What? 95

5 The Disappearance of Passports 101

Bothers, Nuisances, and Passports 102

Schengen Again and Again 105

Passports in the Periphery 112

Conclusion: Integration, Not Freedom 115

6 Borders, Frontiers, and Formalities 121

The Frontiers of Sovereignty 121

Design, Space, and Interrogation 123

Translocality, Transversality, and the Persistence of Borders 134

Conclusion: Narrating the Border 142

7 Conclusion: Passports, Identity, and International Relations 149

Problems of Citizenship, Nationality, and Documentation 152

Constituting the Self as a National and International Actor 156

Taking the "Inter-" Seriously 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index.

ISBN:

158826145X

OCLC:

51518371