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Shah, Nayan, 1966-

Stranger intimacy contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West / [electronic resource] : Nayan Shah. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. - xiv, 347 p. : ill., maps. - American crossroads ; 31 . - American crossroads ; 31. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Foreign workers--North America.
Migrant labor--North America.
Sex and law--North America.
Citizenship--Social aspects--North America.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD6300 / .S53 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 304.8/7305409041