Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• understand the historical and sociological context of how passports became commonplace

• identify ways in which passport regimes are used to sort, categorise, order and classify populations

• consider ways that the passport can produce racialised subjects

• understand how the passport has become a staple of security in the modern airport

• understand the role of matter and the material in making social worlds by using the airport as a case study.