Middle-class Pakistani migrants frame labor migration as pursuit of pleasure

Evidence

With the debate came a growing sense of discomfort within the Pakistani middle class that, in the eyes of the world, all Pakistanis abroad were being stereotyped as labor migrants, an image connoting an uneducated, brutish, people prone to violence and crime. But like all stereotypes, this is far from a full picture. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 21 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Middle-class Pakistanis abroad chafed at being stereotyped as labor migrants — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 21; Labor migrants can transform their class status through strategic migration — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 699

Broader Connections

• Middle-class Pakistanis abroad chafed at being stereotyped as labor migrants #complicates (0.82) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 21