![]() ![]() These encounters were not easily resolved into the separate categories of heterosexual-homosexual instead they were fluid and evolved over time. ![]() He draws on court records to retrieve a largely hidden history of “stranger intimacy”: impermanent associations and transient relationships that existed alongside or replaced diasporic kinship networks that extended back across the Pacific Ocean to the Punjab, the Sindh, Gujarat, or Bengal. In a rich addition to a growing body of literature that seeks to problematize and interrogate the simpler binaries around which migration histories have often been constructed (including the categories of legal-illegal and citizen-alien), Nayan Shah traces the movement of pre–World War II migrant labor from South Asia to the North American West. ![]()
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