enemy alien
Hostile nation's citizen
An enemy alien is a foreign national residing in a country that is at war with their homeland.
During wartime, enemy aliens may face restrictions on movement, property seizure, or internment: Japanese Americans were classified as enemy aliens after Pearl Harbor.
The term is legal and administrative, appearing in immigration law and wartime policy rather than everyday speech.
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- war hysteriaFrenzied public demand for combat
- home frontCivilian sector during war
- fifth columnInternal subversives aiding outsiders
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
Japanese internment · legal status · stigma · historical memory · citizenship · prejudice · xenophobia · scapegoating · naturalization · fear · cultural assimilation · espionage · resilience · Cold War · martial law · deportation · ethnic profiling · Executive Order 9066
enemy aliencitizen
Legal national member
naturalized citizen · national · patriot · subject · countryman
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