Hypersurveillance disempowers Muslim American men and suppresses their voting

Evidence

While many Muslims have switched political parties, a report by the Institute on Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) found that Muslims are the least likely of any faith group to vote (Mogahed and Chouhoud 2017). In the chapters that follow, I provide reasons there may be so little political engagement by the Muslim American population. I show that Muslim American men feel a sense of disempowerment because they are under hypersurveillance by the state, which can lead to lower political participation. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 110

Categorization

• XREF: This is the book’s central mechanism claim — surveillance as causal force shaping civic life — hooking into the reader’s map of state racialization.
• SEED: The paradox of surveillance-linked disengagement is an angle: state watchfulness suffocates the very civic participation that democracy claims to want.