Migrant demographic statistics rest on contingent, culturally racialized subject formation.

Evidence

The apparent statistical solidity implicit in the demographics of migrant minorities needs to be set alongside the contingent nature of the creation of sociological and political subjects and the mediating force of cultural racialization on which this contingency rests. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2283

Categorization

• QUESTION: Pursue: which census/govt categories are most obviously invented and could be shown as such?
• SEED: Essay angle: how ‘immigrant’ and ‘minority’ are manufactured statistical subjects, tracing a category from administrative decision to self-fulfilling social identity.