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alien

In law, a person who is not a citizen of a particular nation.

In the US, federal legislation determines which aliens may legally enter a country or reside in it; their rights at law, both civil and criminal; and the processes and conditions by which they may become citizens.
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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.
Joanne Oppenheim: Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese ... by Bush, Margaret A. / The Horn Book Magazine
Bird, Control of Enemy Alien Civilians in Great Britain, 1914-1918 (London, 1986).
Friends, Aliens, and enemies: fictive communities and the Lusitania ... by Gullace, Nicoletta F. / Journal of Social History
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.
Stefan Zweig and Franz Kafka: a study in contrast by Roshwald, Mordecai / Modern Age
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