Pakistani immigrants are racially classified as both South Asian and Middle Eastern

Evidence

I argue, however, that Pakistani immigrants in the U.S. are simultaneously understood as South Asian and Middle Eastern, a classification that combines national origin, religion, ethnicity, and culture into a unitary conception of race and racial formation. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 80

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this dual classification actually play out in census data, hate-crime reporting, and targeted policing since 9/11?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 80