List of contributors Preface and acknowledgementsPart 1: Setting the Scene1. Playing the ID card: Understanding the significance of identity Card Systems David Lyonand Colin Bennett2. Governing by Identity Louise AmoorePart 2:Colonial Legacies 3. The elusive panopticon: The HANIS project and the politics of standards in South Africa Keith Breckenridge4. China’s second generation national Identity Card: Merging culture, industry, and technology for authentication, classification, and surveillance CherylL.Brown5. Hong Kong’s ‘smart’ ID card: Designed to be out of control Graham Greenleaf 6. A tale of the colonial age, or the banner of new tyranny? National identification Card systems in Japan Midori Ogasawara 7. India’s new ID card: Fuzzy logics, double meanings and ethnic ambiguities Taha Mehmood8. Population ID card systems in the Middle East: The case of the UAE Zeinab Karake Shalhoub Part 3:Encountering Democratic Opposition9. Separating the Sheep from the Goats: The United Kingdom’s National Registration Program and social sorting in the pre-electronic era Scott Thompson10. The United Kingdom identity Card scheme: Shifting motivations, static technologies David Wills11. The politics of Australia’s "Access Card" Dean Wilson12. The INES biometric card and the politics of national identity assignment in France Laurent Laniel and Pierre Piazza13. The US Real ID Act and the securitization of identity Kelly Gates14. Toward a national ID card for Canada? External drivers and internal complexities Andrew Clement, Krista Boa, Simon Davis and Gus Hosein Part 4: Transnational Regimes15. ICAO and the biometric RFID passport: History and analysis Jeffrey Stanton16. Another piece of Europe in your pocket: The European Health Insurance Card Willem Maas