Citizenship is an invisible privilege felt keenly only when it is withheld.

Evidence

Maryam’s fear reflects the impact surveillance has on American citizens. Muslim Americans did not feel the protection that citizenship should entail but rather worried the state could detain them and deny them due process because of their association with terror. The fear of being deported and detained comes with a psychological cost. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 410 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White privilege consists of unearned daily assets invisible to those who hold them. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1249; Flexible global citizenship is available only to a privileged few — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 140; Human rights attach to national citizenship, leaving the stateless unprotected — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 333 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance makes citizens feel citizenship confers no protection #complicates (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 410