Stranger intimacy
Subtitle: contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West
By: Nayan Shah
Series: American crossroads -- 31
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780520270855; 9780520270879
Subjects: Foreign workers; Sex and law; Citizenship; Migrant labor
Description: "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."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Migration, capitalism, and stranger intimacy; title: Passion, violence, and asserting honor; title: Policing strangers and borderlands; title: Rural dependency and intimate tensions; title: Intimacy, law, and legitimacy; title: Legal borderlands of age and gender; title: Intimate ties and state legitimacy; title: Membership and nation-states; title: Regulating intimacy and immigration; title: Strangers to citizenship; title: Conclusion: estrangement or belonging?; title: Notes; title: Select bibliography; title: Index.