enemy aliens
Hostile foreign nationals
Enemy aliens are foreign nationals residing in a country that is at war with their home nation.
The term is primarily legal and historical, referring to citizens of hostile powers who face special restrictions during wartime—internment, travel limitations, or property seizure.
Japanese Americans were classified as enemy aliens during World War II, though many were actually U.S. citizens.
The government required enemy aliens to register with local authorities.
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- guardWatchful defensive attention
- fifth columnInternal subversives aiding outsiders
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- Executive Order 9066Wartime internment authorization decree
exclusion zone · human rights violations · border · camp · barbed wire · xenophobia · espionage · treason · loyalty oath · propaganda films · martial law · constitutional challenges · civil liberties · discrimination · legal limbo · stigma · surveillance · POW camps
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- Japanese CanadiansNikkei, internment, internment camps, redress, Greenwood
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- Red ScareHUAC, McCarthyism, blacklist, loyalty oaths, Joe McCarthy
- war lawsEspionage Act, emergency powers, martial law, war powers, draft law
enemy alienscitizens
Members of a nation
naturalized citizens · nationals · patriots · allies · compatriots