Most Muslim Americans respond to airport surveillance with self-discipline rather than resistance

Evidence

Muslim Americans do not want to irritate TSA agents because they fear the consequences of contesting this behavior, like being detained or prevented from flying. Hamza was the only interviewee who told me he filed a complaint with TSA about being on a list. Perhaps because Hamza is a lawyer, he knew his rights and felt more confident filing a complaint, but in general, the response by the majority of the Muslim Americans interviewed was to minimize surveillance through self-discipline instead of resisting or challenging it. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 240

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s opening framing about self-surveillance as an effect of counterterrorism racialization, and to general literature on surveilled populations internalizing monitoring.