Banned: Muslim Women Resisting Islamophobia from London to Los Angeles

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Abstract

Surveillance of Muslim communities has become a normalized feature of state security in the United States and the United Kingdom. While research on the surveillance of Muslim communities has highlighted the deleterious consequences of such state practices, there is an implicit assumption that men have been most impacted by these developments. However, as surveillance has become more far reaching and a routinized feature of state security, women are not only impacted by this via family members, universities, workplaces, and while travelling, but are key organizers against such state sponsored Islamophobia. This research draws upon 75 in-depth qualitative interviews with young Muslim women activists living in the United States and the United Kingdom. The findings of this research point to the importance of linking both race and gender in the production of surveillant practices, as well as the strategies women use to resist such ongoing targeting.

Author

• Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson, Cal State Univ. Long Beach