Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West / Nayan Shah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shah, Nayan, 1966-

Series:

American crossroads ; 31.

American crossroads ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--North America.

Foreign workers.

Migrant labor--North America.

Migrant labor.

Sex and law--North America.

Sex and law.

Citizenship--Social aspects--North America.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613520616

9781280107214

1280107219

9780520950405

0520950402

OCLC:

774278960