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Author : Peter Nielsen
Release : 2007-08
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Book Rating : 903/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Passport Please by : Peter Nielsen
Download or read book Passport Please written by Peter Nielsen. This book was released on 2007-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Passport Please" is the fast-moving story of conflict between the rulers of two neighboring countries--Earth and the kingdom of heaven. The citizens themselves are the prize being fought over.
Author : Jesper Juul
Release : 2013
Genre : Games & Activities
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of Failure by : Jesper Juul
Download or read book The Art of Failure written by Jesper Juul. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.
Author : Craig Robertson
Release : 2010-07-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Passport in America by : Craig Robertson
Download or read book The Passport in America written by Craig Robertson. This book was released on 2010-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become an indispensable document. But how and why did this form of identification take on such a crucial role? In the first history of the passport in the United States, Craig Robertson offers an illuminating account of how this document, above all others, came to be considered a reliable answer to the question: who are you? Historically, the passport originated as an official letter of introduction addressed to foreign governments on behalf of American travelers, but as Robertson shows, it became entangled in contemporary negotiations over citizenship and other forms of identity documentation. Prior to World War I, passports were not required to cross American borders, and while some people struggled to understand how a passport could accurately identify a person, others took advantage of this new document to advance claims for citizenship. From the strategic use of passport applications by freed slaves and a campaign to allow married women to get passports in their maiden names, to the "passport nuisance" of the 1920s and the contested addition of photographs and other identification technologies on the passport, Robertson sheds new light on issues of individual and national identity in modern U.S. history. In this age of heightened security, especially at international borders, Robertson's The Passport in America provides anyone interested in questions of identification and surveillance with a richly detailed, and often surprising, history of this uniquely important document.
Author : Nicole Constable
Release : 2022-11-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Passport Entanglements by : Nicole Constable
Download or read book Passport Entanglements written by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 2022-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passport Entanglements traces the many tangled threads—political, historical, economic, global, and local—that are tied to the existence of Indonesian aspal or “real but fake” passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate’s attempts to regularize or “clean up” (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate rights while the renewal policies simultaneously undermined them. Contrary to global “best practices” concerning passports, Constable argues that imposing new biometric technologies does not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy but can instead reinforce violent structures on already vulnerable women by producing new vulnerabilities and reproducing old ones.
Author : Foreign Service Institute
Release : 1966
Genre : Khmer language
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Book Synopsis Cambodian, Basic Course: Units 1-45 by : Foreign Service Institute
Download or read book Cambodian, Basic Course: Units 1-45 written by Foreign Service Institute. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
