The terrorist and the migrant fuse into one racialized Muslim type.

Evidence

In the overlap of religious and racial identity, historical conflicts are bound to political and social identity. It is in this sense that the terrorist militant and the labor migrant become the racialized ”Muslim” in contradistinction to the white European or American Christian. The figures of the terrorist and the migrant are woven together in the figure of ”the Muslim” as a racial type; as such, they are historically, ethnologically, and contemporaneously bound to each other. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 33

Categorization

• XREF: Jamshed’s dual identity as ‘militant’ and ‘migrant’ in The Reluctant Fundamentalist maps near-exactly onto this converged racial type. — connects to: A tiny fraction of terrorist actors drove Arab stereotyping as default terrorists.; White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists; Anti-Muslim racism collapses diverse names, skin tones, dress, and nations into one imagined enemy. (+1 more)
• BMF: In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Changez is simultaneously the educated migrant and the perceived terrorist threat — this passage names the very racial machinery that fuses those two roles into one figure.