Private citizens’ hostility confines hijab-wearing women to self-imposed house arrest.

Evidence

For many Muslim women who wear the hijab, the act of avoiding public spaces when an event occurs, such as a terrorist attack, results in self-imposed house arrest. The fear for their physical welfare limits their mobility in public spaces. Private citizens are able to place boundaries on public spaces through social interactions with Muslim Americans. They accomplish this by creating a hostile and unwelcoming environment. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 357

Categorization

• XREF: This is the visceral ‘interior experience of being watched and confined’ material the reader flagged as prime — connects to the gendered men-vs-women contrast and to how surveillance lands on bodies.
• SHARE: The mechanism that private citizens, not the state, can place boundaries on public space through hostile social interactions — a sharp point for someone working on surveillance or urban geography.