Editing Internal passport (section)

{{Short description|Document issued to control domestic travel and internal migration}}
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An '''internal''' or '''domestic passport''' is a type of [[identity document]] issued in a [[passport]]-like booklet format. Internal passports may have a variety of uses including:

# An ordinary [[identity document]] produced in a passport format (such as the modern [[Internal passport of Russia|Russian internal passport]])
# Recording the residence and place of employment of citizens for [[civil registration]] purposes (such as the Chinese [[hukou]])
# Management and restriction of [[internal migration]] (as in the [[Passport system in the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]])
# Recording demographic information such as [[ethnicity]] and [[Citizenship|citizenship and immigration status]], sometimes related to structural discrimination (such as the [[Pass law|pass books in Apartheid South Africa]])
# Controlling access to [[Closed city|closed cities]] and other sensitive locations

When [[passport]]s first emerged, there was no clear distinction between internal and international ones. Later, some countries developed sophisticated systems of passports for various purposes and various groups of population.{{weasel inline|date=May 2018}}