Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations

Rights of Passage explores shifting notions of sovereignty, citizenship, and identity, as well as changing concerns with issues of race, class, gender, and nation. Ranging from such topics as health, war, and migration to the current mood of vigilant surveillance, the book sheds new light on the role of borders in the age of passport has been one of the essential means of identification—and control—of peoples in the international system.