![]() ![]() ![]() Stranger Intimacy uncov ers international migrant’s practices of social navigation, community building, and participation in interethnic social worlds that undermine the containment efforts of nation-states and empires. Shah is the author of two award-winning books - Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press, 2011) and Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001). Shah’s talk is fully entitled: “Refusing to Eat: Asian Pacific American Bodily Defiance from Tule Lake Stockade to Refugee Detention” His scholarship has contributed to studies of race, sexuality and gender and to the history of migration, health, law and governance. Nayan Shah’s research examines historical struggles over bodies, space and the exercise of state power from the mid- 19th to the 21st century. ![]()
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