Surveilled Muslim citizens feel citizenship offers no protection from detention
Evidence
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. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 571
Categorization
- XREF: Directly answers the reader’s core question — how surveillance produces permanent suspect status despite citizenship; connects to the COINTELPRO and Global Racial Enemy threads. — connects to: American citizenship offers no protection from targeted drone assassination — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 848; Islamophobic discourse denies Muslims the status of ordinary citizens; Citizenship offers Muslims little protection against CVE policing — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 412 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Fear of state detention and deportation corrodes Muslim Americans’ sense of citizenship
#corroborates(0.90) - The surveillance gaze denies Muslim Americans the psychological privileges of citizenship
#expands(0.85) - Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship
#expands(0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658 - Muslim Americans hold nominal but reduced substantive citizenship
#corroborates(0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1344 - Formal citizenship fails to shield those perceived as foreign in appearance.
#expands(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 237