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To many governments, a national identity policy is an obvious requirement as they have long had policies and laws that require some form of identification or formal identity document and some policy for when that identity is necessary. These policies may be decades, if not centuries, old developed as the nation-state developed, linked to taxation, instituted to regulate the flow of peoples, or developed due to imperial requirements (Amoore, 2008).
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Whitley, E.A., Hosein, G. (2010). A review of national identity policies. In: Global Challenges for Identity Policies. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-24537-2_2
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