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.