Migrant illegality subsumes and obscures distinct race and class dynamics

Evidence

Thus, the male transnational worker from Pakistan is understood as inhabiting a particular kind of racialized masculinity from the viewpoint of so-called liberaldemocratic publics and a simultaneous transnational class formation from the viewpoint of neoliberal capitalism that requires a service economy. Although complex in their formation, race and class for these workers are often subsumed in the characterization of migrant illegality. As a trait of the global economy, such a construction is tied to the legal apparatuses mandated by states and by the realities of complex global markets that cannot be regulated. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 50

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Silicon Valley’s celebrated culture structurally depends on exploited undocumented labor; Rival broadcast titans came from different class trajectories within one immigrant community — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 347