04156nam 2201021 a 450 991078671220332120200520144314.01-280-10721-90-520-95040-2978661352061610.1525/9780520950405(CKB)2670000000355456(EBL)847473(OCoLC)774278960(SSID)ssj0000584981(PQKBManifestationID)11376053(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000584981(PQKBWorkID)10592556(PQKB)11343746(MdBmJHUP)muse30894(DE-B1597)520253(OCoLC)1110712303(DE-B1597)9780520950405(Au-PeEL)EBL847473(CaPaEBR)ebr10529564(CaONFJC)MIL352061(MiAaPQ)EBC847473(dli)HEB32189(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000210(EXLCZ)99267000000035545620110805d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStranger intimacy[electronic resource] contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West /Nayan ShahBerkeley University of California Press20111 online resource (363 p.)American crossroads ;31Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27085-1 0-520-27087-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan 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.American crossroads ;31.Contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American WestForeign workersNorth AmericaMigrant laborNorth AmericaSex and lawNorth AmericaCitizenshipSocial aspectsNorth America20th century gays and lesbians.20th century immigration.america and capitalism.america and immigration.america and racism.american citizenship.american crossroads.american history.asian american studies.asian american.asian immigration.canada and immigration.canadian history.cultural anthropology.emigration and immigration studies.immigrant studies.immigration and racism.immigration history.lgbt history.life of immigrant.sexual citizenship.united states and canada.us immigrant history.Foreign workersMigrant laborSex and lawCitizenshipSocial aspects304.8/7305409041Shah Nayan1966-1015467MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786712203321Stranger intimacy2371533UNINA