contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West Shah, Nayan creator text bibliography cau Berkeley University of California Press 2011 monographic eng

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347 p. : ill. 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 Nayan Shah. YT2025 M09 Foreign workers North America Migrant labor North America Sex and law North America Citizenship Social aspects North America HD6300 S524 S 2011 9780520270879 SDU 110805