Surveillance makes Muslim Americans police their own behavior to avoid scrutiny

Evidence

The impact of hypersurveillance is that those who are under a watchful eye begin to participate in their own self-discipline. Nadine Naber (2006) coined the term internment of the psyche to describe how Arab Muslims she interviewed in San Francisco responded to the fear and anxiety of state surveillance immediately after 9/11. Some of her participants expressed deep paranoia, while others altered their actions and behaviors, like avoiding too much time in public spaces, in order to prevent their surveillance. I also found that Muslim Americans responded to their surveillance by monitoring their own actions and behaviors in order to prevent hypersurveillance, particularly in airports. For example, Ayesha changed the way she dressed when she flew to avoid being stopped and searched by TSA agents. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 231

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Naber’s term ‘internment of the psyche’ — a named concept for the interior experience of being watched that the reader is explicitly hunting for.
• SHARE: The ‘internment of the psyche’ coinage is exactly the kind of named concept a colleague working on surveillance and racialization would want.