internal passport

noun

A personal identity document that may be used by a country to control and monitor the internal movement and residence of its citizens.

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Meanings

nouninternal passport (plural internal passports)

plural internal passports

  1. A personal identity document that may be used by a country to control and monitor the internal movement and residence of its citizens.

    To prevent the starving peasants from fleeing to the towns an internal passport system was introduced and unauthorized change of residence was made punishable with imprisonment.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39
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