Stranger intimacy contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West - Shah, Nayan, 1966-; ProQuest (Firm) (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Foreign workers -- North America; Migrant labor -- North America; Sex and law -- North America; Citizenship -- Social aspects -- North America; Electronic books