Hypersurveillance drives Muslims toward avoiding medical and financial institutions
Evidence
According to Brayne, system avoidance is when individuals who are subjected to hypersurveillance avoid surveilling institutions like medical and financial organizations (Brayne 2014). There are signs in this chapter that Muslim Americans are beginning to exhibit this behavior. When Muslim men go to great lengths to silence themselves because they want to downplay or make invisible their religious identity in order to avoid surveillance, it may very well be a sign that they will also avoid institutions that they fear may surveil them. When organizations, like CAIR, that are supposed to help advocate for Muslims are also under surveillance, Muslims are left even more vulnerable, with little recourse for social justice. In many ways, it feels as if Muslims have nowhere to go. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 634
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Hypersurveilled Muslims may avoid medical and financial institutions entirely (similarity 0.94)
- Hypersurveilled Muslims withdraw from institutions they fear may watch them (similarity 0.94)
- Hypersurveilled groups withdraw from institutions including their own advocates (similarity 0.93)
- Hypersurveilled Muslims may withdraw from medical and financial institutions to avoid surveillance (similarity 0.86)
- Surveilled civil rights groups lose the power to protect Muslims (similarity 0.83)
- Fear of unpredictable surveillance makes Muslim Americans surveil themselves, disempowering them. (similarity 0.80)