Melancholy order: Asian migration and the globalization of borders

In: Columbia studies in international and global history

Abstract

A careful look at the processes of globalization over the past two hundred years reveals that the practices and ideologies of global interaction rose in conjunction with the global consolidation of a system of nation states and borders. The global standardization of migration control and identity documentation (e.g., passports and visas) is a concrete example of this globalization of borders, designed to both facilitate and limit movement.This book argues many of the standard principles and techniques of global migration and identity regulation were developed from 1880 to 1910 through the con