SOCI 3430 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nationalization, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsociology

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3430
• Professor: Michael Nijhawan

Document Summary

History of the passport by r. mongia (some of these points are taken out straight from the professors powerpoint) Three main concepts/topics are nation, race and state in relation to the history of the modern passport. Analysis: passport is not only a technology reflecting certain understandings of race, nationality and state but was central to organizing and securing the modern definitions of these categories. 1st premise (argument): what we understand as the nation-state (as a geopolitical body, ideology, and material reality) comes into existence, not before, but during the process of raced migration". Raced migration: non-state-assisted, free" migration to europe or to white settler colonies originating outside europe . Raced-migration that generates a state monopoly over migration practices and the passport gives us the modern overlap of the state, the nation and race. An overlap that produces race as a national attribute codified in the state document of the passport.