Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West /

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"In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shah, Nayan, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Colección:American crossroads ; 31.
Temas:
Foreign workers > North America.
Migrant labor > North America.
Sex and law > North America.
Citizenship > Social aspects > North America.
Travailleurs migrants > Amérique du Nord.
Sexualité et droit > Amérique du Nord.
Travailleurs étrangers > Amérique du Nord.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Citizenship > Social aspects
Foreign workers
Migrant labor
Sex and law
North America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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