internment
Holding enemy aliens
Internment is the confinement of people, typically during wartime or political crisis.
Unlike imprisonment for crimes, internment detains groups based on nationality, ethnicity, or perceived threat: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The term carries connotations of injustice—detention without trial or individual evidence of wrongdoing.
Confinement in jail
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
- custodyProtective care or control
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
- captivityState of being confined
detainee · confinement · lockup · isolation · remand · indefinite · administrative · arbitrary
Of dual national heritage
Soldiers' residential building
- watchtowersTall posts for surveillance
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
quarters · relocation · resettlement · curfew · registration · compound · fencing · bunks
Hatred of outsiders
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- targetingSelecting as objective
marginalization · exclusion · segregation · dispossession · roundup · registration · surveillance · othering
Captured military personnel
- civilianNon-military person
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- hostilitiesActive armed fighting
- conflictOpposition between parties
combatant · non-combatant · armistice · repatriation · military · allies · enemies · liberation
incarceration
Confinement in jail
- imprisonmentLegal detention in jail
- custodyProtective care or control
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
captivity · detainee · confinement · lockup · isolation · remand · indefinite · administrative · arbitrary · prolonged
Japanese-American
Of dual national heritage
barracks
Soldiers' residential building
- watchtowersTall posts for surveillance
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- enclosureConfined, bordered space
rationing · quarters · relocation · resettlement · curfew · registration · compound · fencing · bunks · latrines
xenophobia
Hatred of outsiders
- scapegoatingUnfairly assigning fault to innocents
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
targeting · marginalization · exclusion · segregation · dispossession · roundup · registration · surveillance · othering · suspicion
POW
Captured military personnel
- civilianNon-military person
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- hostilitiesActive armed fighting
conflict · combatant · non-combatant · armistice · repatriation · military · allies · enemies · liberation · surrender
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, cells, captivity
internmentfreedom
Absence of constraint
release · liberty · liberation · emancipation · free movement
internmentliberation
Release from constraint
emancipation · manumission · freedom · independence · amnesty
- internment campFacility for confining civilians
- Japanese internmentForced relocation of civilians
- wartime internmentConfining civilians during conflict