citizens, the SSN—by re-mapping the population via exclusions and benefits—helped to produce a specific kind of
national citizenship, one that carried substantive
privileges.”).
489. See, e.g., James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How
Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have
Failed (1998); Patrick Weil, The Sovereign Citizen:
Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
(2013); Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness (2016);
Rachel E. Rosenbloom, From the outside Looking in: U.S.
Passports in the Borderlands, in Benjamin N. Lawrance and
Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in Question:
Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness (2016); Sarah Igo,
The Known Citizen (2018); John C. Torpey, The Invention of
the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (2d ed.
2018).
490. But see John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State 115-16 (2d ed. 2018)
(covering control of passenger ships pre-Civil War,
including indemnification requirements for ship owners
whose passengers “would fall on the public purse after
their arrival.”).
491. Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
314 (2018).
492. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State 116 (2d ed. 2018).
493. Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
315 (2018).
494. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State 121 (2d ed. 2018).
501. Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness 119 (2016)
(“Chinese American challenges to racial exclusion led to a
particular documents regime that relied on lengthy
investigative interviews and the use of photographs and
notarized affidavits.”); John C. Torpey, The Invention of the
Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State 123 (2d ed.
2018) (photography).
502. Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
316 (2018).
503. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (2d ed. 2018).
504. Id.
505. Id. at 125.
506. Sarah Igo, The Known Citizen 56 (2018).
507. Id.
508. Id. at 59. See also id. at 71.
509. Id. at 61; Wendy Hunter, Undocumented Nationals:
Between Statelessness and Citizenship 4, 22 (2019).
510. Id.. See also id. at 62 (“In a nation in which the
original ‘undocumented’ were white middle- and
upper-class citizens, to be known to the authorities was at
the turn of the century a badge of deficiency.”).
511. See id. at 72-73.
512. Id.
513. Id. at 74.
495. Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness 120
(2016).
514. See Evan Selinger & Woodrow Hartzog, Privacy and
Obscurity, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of
Technology (2014).
496. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State 118-120 (2d ed. 2018).
516. Id. at 79 (“In the post-New Deal era, SSNs would
evolve without much comment from a ‘single-use’
identifier into one useful to a profusion of agencies in both
the public and private sector.”).
497. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (2d ed. 2018).
498. Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness 119
(2016).
499. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship and the State 1122 (2d ed. 2018).
500. Id. at 121, 124.
184
515. Sarah Igo, The Known Citizen 75 (2018).
517. Soc. Sec. Admin., Report to Congress on Options for
Enhancing the Social Security Card, Chapter II – The
Number, https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/ssnreportc2.html.; Soc. Sec. Admin., Social Security Numbers for
Noncitizens (Mar. 2018), https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/
EN-05-10096.pdf.
518. Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958).
519. Gorbach v. Reno, 219 F.3d 1087, 1096 (9th Cir. 2000).
520. Ramzi Kassem, Passport Revocation as Proxy
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