Past Fellows at the Institute of International Studies

Reinhard Bendix Memorial Research Fellow, 1996-1997

Max Paul Friedman, History: Unusual Suspects: The Deportation, Internment, and Repatriation of 5,000 "Alien Enemies" from Latin America by the U.S. in World War II. Mr. Friedman is investigating the U.S. "Alien Enemy" program in Latin America, under which some 5,000 people of various nationalities were deported from a dozen countries to prison camps in Texas, then on to Germany and Japan during World War II. This case illustrates and complicates recent theories of postnational identity and transnational citizenship, while providing an example of the way governments react to the perceived national security threat posed by diasporic migrant communities of uncertain national allegiance. He is using archival sources in several countries and interviews with surviving participants to reconstruct this episode.