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

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
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Index.