Torpey 1998 State Monopolization Of Legitimate Means Of Movement

Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate "Means of Movement"
Author(s): John Torpey
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Source: Sociological Theory, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Nov., 1998), pp. 239-259
Published by: American Sociological Association
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Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the
Legitimate "Means of Movement"*
JOHN TORPEY

University of California, Irvine

Following the imagery of "expropriation"used by Marx to describe the process of capitalist developmentand by Weberto characterizestates 'monopolizationof the legitimate use of violence, I argue that modernstates have also "expropriatedthe legitimate means of movement"and monopolized the authority to determine who may circulate within and cross their borders.Against this background,we should reconsiderthe metaphor of "penetration" typically used to discuss the enhanced capacity of modern states relative to their predecessors, and instead thinkof states as "embracing"populations, identifyingpersons unambiguouslyin order to control their movementsand to distinguish membersfrom nonmembers.
The vagabond is by definition a suspect.
-Daniel Nordman(1987)

In his writings,KarlMarxsoughtto show thatthe process of capitalistdevelopmentinvolved the expropriationof the "means of

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