surveillance mindmap

surveillance mindmap

1. white rose shopping centre

   • exclusion and segregation, e.g. young people, "zoo book"
   • Giving back to the community, e.g. helping youths (dance classes), early opening hours for elderly

2. Gated Communities

   • Social Inequality
     • reinforce existing social divisions
       • feed into a sense of insecurity
   • South African Middle Class/Affluent People
     • fear of violence
       • able to let children out to play
         • husbands are able to work away without worrying
   • creates a sense of community
     • warm, familiarity
   • CCTV, Control Rooms

3. Safe Guarding Children

   • surveillance for children is seen as both protection & a threat
     • Vulnerable, in need of protection
       • protected through a complex system of support & protection
     • inequality issues
       • refugees & asylum seekers are afraid to ask for help
   • Children's services team
     • Universal services offer support to mother's with babies under 5
       • offers support to mothers, e.g. the baby cafe, breastfeeding group
         • prevention is better than cure
     • • a difference between what mum and professional thinks is best

4. migrants and borders

   • new surveillance technologies
     • tougher border controls
       • the need to know who is in the country
     • legal/illegal immigrants
       • subject to regular police reporting
       • Mohammed is able to stay in Europe but cannot work or claim benefits, so has to volunteer and survive on tips. He stays in a hostel.
         • prejudice surrounding particular population
   • workers registration scheme for foreign workers
     • Kris &friends have to do temp agency work so don't receive holiday pay