Migration status only becomes a problem when others choose to treat it as one

Evidence

There is a difference in how people make choices about me. If I am Iranian, that’s not the problem. But you can choose to see me like I am a problem or you can choose [not to]. To be treated fairly, until I mess up I guess. […] Innocent till proven guilty. […] The [white] people here, like Claire, they know how to behave and know they shouldn’t joke about some things, […] like not ask stupid questions about this and that. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 32

Categorization

• XREF: Farima’s framing of being seen as a ‘problem’ echoes the phenomenological reading of racialized visibility in Nadia Seremetakis or Sara Ahmed’s work on the stranger. — connects to: Migration definitions are political constructs, not objective facts — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3810
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 32

Broader Connections

• Migration definitions are political constructs, not objective facts #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3810