Migrants hold and strategically deploy multiple racial frameworks across transnational space.

Evidence

Correspondingly, projects at the national or even global level can be creatively and strategically recast at regional and local levels. Projects “travel” as well. Consider how migration recasts concepts of race, racial meaning, and racial identity: Immigrants’ notions of race are often shaped in reference to, and in dialogue with, concepts of race in both their countries of origin and settlement. Thus migrants can maintain, adopt, and strategically utilize different concepts of race in transnational space (Kim 2008; Roth 2012). At any given historical moment, racial projects compete and overlap, evincing varying capacity either to maintain or to challenge the prevailing racial system. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 129

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how migrants strategically shifting between origin and settlement race frameworks bears on the vault’s claims about the contingency of racial categories.
• XREF: Links to The Namesake and the migrant/identity theme in the reader’s fiction library. — connects to: Transnational movement organizations sustain dispersed coalitions by brokering communication and shared identity. — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 126