03462nam 2200829 a 450 991095763420332120240516114309.09786613520616978128010721412801072199780520950405052095040210.1525/9780520950405(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(Perlego)551349(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000210(EXLCZ)99267000000035545620110805d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStranger intimacy contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West /Nayan Shah1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20111 online resource (363 p.)American crossroads ;31Description based upon print version of record.9780520270855 0520270851 9780520270879 0520270878 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 AmericaForeign workersMigrant laborSex and lawCitizenshipSocial aspects304.8/7305409041Shah Nayan1966-1015467MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957634203321Stranger intimacy2371533UNINA