ABSTRACT
This chapter traces two legal struggles over the changing forms and authority of passports; the first concerns campaigns to ‘de-gender’ or gender otherwise passports, and the second centres on passports issued by First Nation political authorities. These two passport struggles play out either at the margins of state citizenship, or reject state-bestowed citizenship outright in favour of other modes of identification, nationhood and political belonging. In exploring these struggles, legal histories and the contemporary reception of the modern passport as a legal document will be traced and interrogated.
