internees
Those held captive
Internees are people who have been confined or detained, especially during wartime.
The term typically refers to civilians held by a government for security reasons rather than for criminal charges—Japanese Americans in U.S. camps during World War II, for instance, or foreign nationals detained during conflicts.
The internees were held without trial for the duration of the war.
Detained military personnel
- POWCaptured military personnel
- enemy alienForeigner from hostile country
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
- evacueesPeople removed from danger
displaced persons · forced labor · Geneva Conventions · war crimes · Japanese American · German American · Italian American · repatriation
People held in custody
- arresteesPeople taken into custody
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- habeas corpusWrit challenging lawful custody
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
hearing · release · parole · deportation · asylum · refugee status · stateless · enemy combatant
Protective care or control
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
- confinedKept within bounds
- captiveOne held by force
held · camp · barracks · barbed wire · guard tower · facility · compound · enclosure
prisoner of war
Detained military personnel
- POWCaptured military personnel
- enemy alienForeigner from hostile country
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
evacuees · displaced persons · forced labor · Geneva Conventions · war crimes · Japanese American · German American · Italian American · repatriation · liberation
detainees
People held in custody
- arresteesPeople taken into custody
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
- habeas corpusWrit challenging lawful custody
tribunal · hearing · release · parole · deportation · asylum · refugee status · stateless · enemy combatant · civil liberties
custody
Protective care or control
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
- confinedKept within bounds
captive · held · camp · barracks · barbed wire · guard tower · facility · compound · enclosure · restricted
quarantine
Isolation preventing disease transmission
- segregatedForcibly kept separate
- separatedPut or kept apart
- removedTaken from position
uprooted · displaced · estranged · alienated · excluded · outcast · cut-off · secluded · sequestered · cordoned
- Japanese InternmentExecutive Order 9066, relocation centers, forced relocation, evacuation order, camp survivors
- Persecuted GroupsJews, Romani, Roma, Armenians, Rohingya
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, Sakharov
- refugeesrefugee camps, refugee camp, displaced persons, refugee status, refugee policy
- war casualtiescasualties, war casualties, war dead, killed in action, fallen soldiers