Perplexities between enemy aliens and their motherland: the UK government's measures for british civilians stranded in the Far East, 1941–2011
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Chan Yang [1]
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[1] Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
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- Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 31, Nº. 2, 2024, págs. 186-210
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper explores the British government’s measures for its civilian subjects stranded as ‘enemy aliens’ in Japanese-controlled areas in the Far East during World War II. The British government tried to protect the interests of these Far Eastern subjects during the war and in the immediate postwar period. Its manner of dealing with the latter’s redress movement from the late 1980s was initially reluctant but eventually became relatively adequate, thanks to the twin pressures of domestic public opinion and precedents set by other former Allied governments and the resolute struggles of the ex–Far Eastern subjects themselves.
