Surveillance makes citizens feel citizenship confers no protection

Evidence

Maryam’s fear reflects the impact surveillance has on American citizens. Muslim Americans did not feel the protection that citizenship should entail but rather worried the state could detain them and deny them due process because of their association with terror. The fear of being deported and detained comes with a psychological cost. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 410

Categorization

  • XREF: This is the thesis sentence the reader needs — surveillance racializes by rendering citizenship hollow. Directly replaces the Global Racial Enemy slot; connects to Beydoun’s ‘Islamophobia as racialized religious governance.’ — connects to: Surveillance power erodes democracy from within rather than confronting it directly — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1211