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Author Shah, Nayan, 1966- author.

Title Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West / Nayan Shah
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series American crossroads ; 31
American crossroads ; 31
Contents Migration, capitalism, and stranger intimacy -- Passion, violence, and asserting honor -- Policing strangers and borderlands -- Rural dependency and intimate tensions -- Intimacy, law, and legitimacy -- Legal borderlands of age and gender -- Intimate ties and state legitimacy -- Membership and nation-states -- Regulating intimacy and immigration -- Strangers to citizenship -- Conclusion: estrangement or belonging? -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
Summary "In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Foreign workers -- North America
Migrant labor -- North America
Sex and law -- North America
Citizenship -- Social aspects -- North America
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Citizenship -- Social aspects
Foreign workers
Migrant labor
Sex and law
North America
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011030381
ISBN 9780520950405
0520950402
1280107219
9781280107214
9786613520616
6613520616