Government watchlists target Muslim men for extra airport security
Evidence
Aziza’s father was correct in noting his surveillance was not random, but inspired by a system where government lists, the Selectee List, and the Secure Flight Program, are used to hypersurveil Muslim men in airports. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 188
Categorization
- XREF: Concretizes the Selectee List and Secure Flight Program mechanisms — connects to the Beydoun et al. surveillance literature in the reader’s map.
- SEED: The gender asymmetry — a father targeted while daughters in the same family aren’t — is a strong hook for an essay on how surveillance is gendered.