Return migrants rationalize departure through multiple overlapping justifications

Evidence

Some said they left the U.S. because they feared separation from their families, the humiliation of detention and deportation, and the danger of racial violence. Others explained their departure in less anguished terms: as a response to family problems in Pakistan, to seek the comfort of the home country, or to find better jobs. Migrants hold a complex set of justifications for return migration in the context of perceived danger. Although their accounts were not always articulated in a straightforward manner, many revealed the fear of racism and the potential of being targeted for disciplinary exclusion. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 742

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Causal and reflection categories are post-hoc rationalizations of an underlying two-term operation — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 36