Middle-class Pakistanis abroad chafed at being stereotyped as labor migrants

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

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 21
• XREF: connects to: Indian migrants to the US came predominantly as petty bourgeois, not workers — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 327