Identification and Registration Practices in Transnational Perspective: People, Papers and Practices (St Antony's Series)

by Gayle Lonergan (Author), James Brown (Author), Ilsen About (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $125.27

  This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use.