This book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so
important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport …

This book focusses on the instruments, practices, and materialities produced by various
authorities to monitor, regulate, and identify migrants in European cities from the sixteenth to …

In 1915 Baba Bapoo, a store assistant in Cape Town, was thrown into a state of great mental
and emotional stress when he lost his permit en route to India. This was the only document …

This dissertation examines the ways in which the four key assessment techniques used in
the Dutch State Reform School for Girls (1905-1975) functioned in processes of identity …

This article examines the practice of Rorschach testing as it was applied in a Dutch reform
school for girls in the mid-20th century. Considering the assessment technique of Rorschach …

While city gates and walls served as boundaries between locals and newcomers in the early
modern period, national borders became the most important demarcation line in the modern …

Australasia in the 1890s, where dictation tests (as the writing tests were known there) were
incorporated into immigration legislation by New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania …

A pesquisa tem por objetivo realizar o levantamento da legislação brasileira entre 1890 e
2020, observando quais são os documentos identitários básicos e obrigatórios e verificar …