I am not sure where you got the idea that I was saying a Muslim wouldn’t have agency. I am only saying that if a Muslim was dropped in the middle of the country in the 1950s, they would likely encounter difficulties that a white man wouldnt, and that assuming you could just go anywhere in the 1950s and be easily successful is not equally true for everyone.
Not if the kid was black. Just ask Emmett Till, a kid from Chicago ‘dropped’ into Mississippi on vacation.
Or if the kid was a woman. You think she would have no problem finding a job in the 1950s?
Or if the kid was a Muslim. Or gay. Or disabled.
Even if you were a straight white male, your mortality rate was a lot higher in the 1950s than today.