Alien internment in Britain during the twentieth century: An introduction

Abstract

Alien internment in Britain remains unexplored and its significance at most is seen as limited, as ‘an unimpressive footnote’ in modern British history. The introduction explores how internment has been remembered (and forgotten) in a general process of marginalization. It highlights the weaknesses of existing literature and indicates how the essays in this volume confront many of the untouched or unanswered questions of this tragic, comic and often very frightening subject.