Description: In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan 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 exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.
Review Quotes: "Makes a significant contribution to historical scholarship. . . . But Shah realizes a broader objective, to show how the history of even a small (in numerical terms) minority has important implications for the ways in which all Americans understand the parameters of citizenship."-- "Southern California Quarterly"