TY - BOOK AU - Shah,Nayan TI - Stranger intimacy: contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West T2 - American crossroads SN - 9780520270879 AV - HD6300 S524 S 2011 CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Foreign workers KW - North America KW - Migrant labor KW - Sex and law KW - Citizenship KW - Social aspects N1 - 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; YT2025 M09 ER -