Perceived parental surveillance in public shames immigrant teens acutely

Evidence

Lina was mortified. There sat a lone woman quietly spying on Lina and her group of girls. How did they let her in? Lina thought. Why can’t she just wait outside for me? Why would she do this to me in front of my friends? — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 608

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the shame/control dynamic in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and general immigrant-family literature. — connects to: Teen girls’ professed privacy concerns actually mask reputational face-management — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 485