Pentagon Pushes National Identification Card For US

2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 (12) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Wayne Madsen
Keyword(s):  
National Identification ◽  
Identification Card

scholarly journals Risk Technologies and the Securitization of Post-9/11 Citizenship: The Case of National ID Cards in Canada.

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Walby ◽  
Sean P Hier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Security ◽  
National Identification ◽  
Identification Card

The attacks of 11 September 2001 on Washington and New York continue to influence how governments manage im/migration, citizenship, and national security. One of the more contentious national security responses to the events of 9/11 in Canada has been the drive to introduce a biometric national identification card. In this paper, we argue that the drive for a Canadian national ID card is bound up in ideological processes which threaten to exacerbate, rather than to alleviate, state insecurities pertaining to risk, citizenship, and border (in) security. We maintain that ‘proof of status’ surveillance technologies, such as biometrically-encoded ID cards, lead to the ‘securitization’ of citizenship, and we conclude that ID cards threaten to destabilize the modern spatializations of sovereignty that they are purported to uphold under the guise of national security.

Privacy enhancing national identification card system

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Kuada ◽  
Isaac Wiafe ◽  
Daniel Addo ◽  
Emmanuel Djaba
Keyword(s):  
National Identification ◽  
Identification Card ◽  
Card System

The Tension Between Cultural Codes in South Korean Civil Society: The Case of the Electronic National Identification Card

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee-Jeong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
National Identification ◽  
Identification Card ◽  
Civil Sphere

This article applies a late-Durkheimian theoretical framework to civil society as a sphere of solidarity in order to identify cultural codes and to explore their role in integrating or dividing members of South Korean civil society entering an information age coincident with processes of democratization. A policy debate relating to information, a debate over the Electronic National Identification Card, is used to show the co-existence of, and conflicts between, a ‘developmental code’ based on economic growth deriving from the authoritarian period of state-sponsored capitalism, and a later ‘democratic code’ based on human rights. This article argues that while the values of a ‘democratic code’ are becoming more dominant in the recent South Korean civil sphere, their validity is continuously challenged. The case also provides evidence that democratization and informatization can operate in tandem to establish dominance of the democratic code in public discourse in the South Korean civil sphere.

Birth of a Nation: National Identification in Singapore

Asian Survey ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 510-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. MacDougall
Keyword(s):  
National Identification

National Identification, A Social Cure for COVID-19? Evidence From 67 Countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonetto ◽  
Sylvain Delouvée ◽  
Yara Mahfud ◽  
Jais Adam-Troian
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
National Identification ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Health Benefits

Social distancing and mass quarantines were implemented worldwide in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Prior research on the effects of social isolation has shown that such measures bear negative consequences for population health and well-being. Conversely, a growing body of evidence suggests that feeling positively identified with a group is associated with a range of physical and mental health benefits. This effect is referred to as the social cure and generalizes to various identities. In line with these findings, this study tested whether national identification could promote wellbeing and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, we used survey data conducted among 67 countries (N = 46,450) which included measures of wellbeing, national identification, and subjective physical health. Mixed-model analyses revealed that national identity was indeed associated with wellbeing - despite adjustment on social belonging, COVID-19 perceived risk, exposure, and ideology. This effect did not extend to subjective health. These results suggest that the mere feeling of belonging to a national group may have mental health benefits and could be leveraged by governments. We discuss the implications of our findings within the social cure framework and their relevance for population mental health under COVID-19.

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