Shah, Nayan, 1966-
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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Part of the series American crossroads 31;American crossroads 31.
Notes:

• 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. –pub. desc.

Subjects:

• Foreign workers — North America.
• Migrant labor — North America.
• Sex and law — North America.
• Citizenship — Social aspects — North America.

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