The surveillance industry needs racialized Muslim bodies to justify its funding

Evidence

There are political, economic, and social motivations behind the process of racialization. For example, the need to maintain a surveillance industry is driven by the idea that terrorism is one of the greatest threats to Americans. This surveillance industry needs bodies to watch and monitor; therefore racializing a Muslim body as a potential terrorist becomes a necessity to keep the surveillance industry well resourced. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 458

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Economic driver of racialization — connects to the reader’s map of the surveillance state and to Maule/other surveillance-capital analysis.

Related

• The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded (similarity 0.95)
• The surveillance industry’s need for targets drives the racialization of Muslim bodies (similarity 0.92)
• A self-perpetuating surveillance industry depends on racializing Muslims as terrorist threats. (similarity 0.90)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.89)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (similarity 0.87)
• Support for a targeted minority doubles as surveillance and control of that minority (similarity 0.87)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.87)
• Surveillance requires a racialized threatening body to justify its existence (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance derives from country-of-origin priority lists that racialize Muslim identity (similarity 0.86)
• Socioeconomic status does not protect Muslims from racialization during war (similarity 0.86)
• US surveillance systematically targets select bodies using racial cues (similarity 0.85)
• Terrorism declined while mass shootings rose, yet only Muslims faced surveillance (similarity 0.85)
• Surveillance itself racializes target groups into a suspicious race (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. (similarity 0.85)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Blanket accusations of Muslims justify state surveillance by identity #corroborates (0.65) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 58
• Racializing Muslims as threats sustains a surveillance state with gendered effects #expands (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 346
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #expands (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 65
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance #expands (0.55) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 473
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #expands (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474
• Surveillance targets Muslims while ignoring white supremacist militias #expands (0.50) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 487