Enemy Aliens: Internment and the Homefront War in Australia, 1914–1920 by Gerhard Fischer

Bohdan S. Kordan. No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience. by J.-Guy Lalande

“…No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016. McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History: Series Two 39, edited by John Zucchi. xvi, 400 pp. …”
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Who Was He? Internment, Exile and Ambiguity in Norbert Gstrein’s Novel Die englischen Jahre (The English Years) (1999) by Martin Löschnigg

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Putinism is Contagious by Dimitry Vladimirovich Kochenov, Suryapratim Roy

“…The underlying rationale is the WWI ‘enemy alien’ logic, where all Russian civilians are enemy aliens, and must be treated with suspicion. …”
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Making modern social science: The global imagination in East Central and Southeastern Europe after Versailles by Lebow, K, Mazurek, M, Wawrzyniak, J

“…At the outbreak of the war the London-based anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski was at a professional meeting in Australia. Technically an ‘enemy alien’ (a Pole of Austro-Hungarian citizenship), he was barred from returning to Britain; stranded in Australia, under surveillance by authorities and with insecure finances, Malinowski began fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands that would result in his groundbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922).1Argonauts’ influence rested on its compelling portrait of the anthropologist as ‘participant-observer’, the insider/outsider uniquely poised to decode and recode cultures and meanings.2 Malinowski thus adeptly retooled his own ambiguous status into a paradigm of the ethnographer’s optimal subject-position – quipping that he himself was particularly suited to this role, as ‘the Slavonic nature is more plastic and more naturally savage than that of Western Europeans’.3…”

A History of Contested Narratives: The National Film Board of Canada’s Evolving Cinematic Treatment (1945–2018) of the Internment of Japanese Canadians during World War Two by George Melnyk

“…The study deals with six NFB films: Of Japanese Descent (1945), Enemy Alien (1975), Minoru: Memory of Exile (1992), Freedom Has a Price (1994), Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (2003), and East of the Rockies (2018). …”

Autobiography through Anecdotes in Joe Pieri’s Isle Of The Displaced by Souhir Zekri Masson

“…Having emigrated from Italy to Scotland at the beginning of the twentieth century and established his fish and chip shop in Glasgow, Joe Pieri was then interned and turned into an “enemy alien” on the day Italy declared war on Britain in 1940. …”
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A PORTRAIT OF POST-SEPTEMBER11 AMERICA IN THE CINEMA by Cristiane Toledo Maria

“…Among the topics portrayed by the movies there is excessive patriotism, individualism, personification of an enemy, alienation and historical amnesia.…”
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The Employment of German Scientists in Australia after World War II by Evan Jones

“…The Australian Employment of Scientific and Technical Enemy Aliens Scheme (ESTEA) instead channeled its personnel to basic science and industrial research. …”
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“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915 by Paul Thompson

“…A public indignation meeting created the Committee and gave it a broad mandate to ferret out suspect enemy aliens. The European polity of Pietermaritzburg was essentially British; there were relatively few Germans, so the Committee worked quickly. …”
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The Experiences of Nikkei-Australian Soldiers During World War II by Shannon Whiley

“…At the time, legislation allowed for Nikkei-Australians to be variously classified as loyal citizens capable of enlistment, as not sufficiently ‘Australian’ for duty, or as enemy aliens, depending upon how it was applied in each case. …”
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A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America by Greg Robinson

“…Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed "concentration camps" for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress, and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemoration and debate. …”
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A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America by Greg Robinson

“…Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed "concentration camps" for enemy aliens. He also considers the aftermath of confinement, including the place of Japanese Americans in postwar civil rights struggles, the long movement by former camp inmates for redress, and the continuing role of the camps as touchstones for nationwide commemoration and debate. …”
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Caravanserai by Katherine Bullock

“…The 9/11 tragedy changed all that, and Muslims in Australia, as in other western countries, found themselves treated as “enemy aliens.” Believing that the clock had been set back, the author felt an urgent need to retrace her steps to find out how her country’s Muslim communities were faring. …”
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