Passports and border checks became widespread during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Passports and formal border controls became widespread during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as states sought to monitor and regulate international mobility.
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Transitory Trust: Falsified Passports, Circulars, and Other Speculations in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
2021 · cited by 12
Discusses how the increasing and uneven use of passports for maritime travel in nineteenth-century Cuba generated confusion and documentary procedures.
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Vaccine Passports as a Constitutional Right
2021 · cited by 0
Notes that vaccine passports and similar documentation have existed for over a century, highlighting their presence in earlier periods.