The 1965 Immigration Act turned religion into a salient identity marker for Muslim migrants

Evidence

Religion as a marker of identity started to grow as a result of the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Immigrant Muslims began to carve out Muslim spaces in the American landscape by doing things like building mosques, motivated by the desire to teach their children Islamic values. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 102

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Parallel to the mosque-building-as-infrastructure theme in ‘Grafting & Growth’ — religious spaces carved into the American landscape as identity infrastructure.