Shah, Nayan,

Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West / Nayan Shah. - Berkeley : 2011.a University of California Press, 2011.b 2011.c - 347 p. : ill. - American crossroads ; 31 .

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. HKBU library

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

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