Labor migrants can transform their class status through strategic migration

Evidence

Migrant workers thus make complex financial calculations that balance the accrual of debt against the potential of illicit networks and formal networks to place them in better-paying jobs. Once migrant workers secure the networks they need to assemble resources to travel, they often follow the migration patterns that bring them the highest rate of return. Thus, labor migrants can transform their class status through migration. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 699

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rival broadcast titans came from different class trajectories within one immigrant community — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 347