"McKeown's detailed history traces how, rather than being a legacy of "traditional" forms of sovereignty,practices of border control historically rose from attempts to control Asian migration around the Pacific in the 1880s. New policies to control mobility had to be justified in the context of contemporary liberal ideas of freedom and mobility, generating principles that are taken for granted today, such as the belief that migration control is a sovereign right of receiving nations and that it should occur at their borders."--BOOK JACKET.
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