Hypersurveilled Muslims withdraw from institutions they fear may watch them

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Hypersurveilled Muslims may avoid medical and financial institutions entirely (similarity 0.94)
• Hypersurveillance drives Muslims toward avoiding medical and financial institutions (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 0.90)
• Muslim American men feared interviewing because hypersurveillance made them distrust strangers (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance causes Muslims to discipline their own behavior preemptively (similarity 0.82)
• Muslim American men self-silence politically out of fear of surveillance (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance fear makes Muslims internalize discipline and self-police (similarity 0.82)
• Fear of unpredictable surveillance makes Muslim Americans surveil themselves, disempowering them. (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance makes Muslim men strategically perform loyalty to manage others’ suspicions (similarity 0.82)
• Surveillance leads Muslims to police their own actions and dress (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim men self-censor to avoid being associated with terrorism. (similarity 0.81)
• Surveilled civil rights groups lose the power to protect Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance makes Muslim Americans police their own behavior to avoid scrutiny (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Hypersurveilled Muslims may withdraw from medical and financial institutions to avoid surveillance #expands (0.95) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 634
• Surveillance fear makes Muslims internalize discipline and self-police #expands (0.70)
• Surveillance causes Muslims to discipline their own behavior preemptively #expands (0.70)
• Self-concealment by fearful Muslims inadvertently advances Islamophobia’s erasure mission #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 540
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies #expands (0.60)
• Surveillance pressure makes Muslim men erase rather than transform their identity #expands (0.55)