Professor of Sociology John Torpey

John Torpey

This book examines the history of the passport and state control of population movement.

Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

The Invention of the Passport

This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that reparations campaigns may lead to improved well-being of victims and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which concern with the past may depart from the future orientation of progressive politics.

Professor of Sociology John Torpey

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