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enemy alien: see alien alien, in law, any person residing in one political community while owing allegiance to another. A procedure known as naturalization permits aliens to become citizens . ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She also draws heavily on 1940s newspaper accounts and from later testimony given by Japanese Americans in the early 1980s, carefully constructing a disturbing account of the widespread racism that led rapidly to the labeling of all Japanese-American residents (many of whom had been born in the United States) as enemy aliens. Bird, Control of Enemy Alien Civilians in Great Britain, 1914-1918 (London, 1986). Thus, in a story entitled Buchmendel (1929), a passionate bibliophile eking out his livelihood as a book dealer, who happens to be technically an enemy alien living in Vienna during the war, is crushed by the bureaucratic apparatus of the state. |
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