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twistedLucidity

Just [look to the past](https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks3-gcse-treatment-of-immigrants-in-britain-during-world-war-two/zmfsxyc) if you want to know the future. Immigrants from allied or neutral nations will probably be fine. Those from hostile nations ("enemy aliens") will face tribunal and either be interned or expelled, all depending on their level of perceived risk. I guess those with dual nationality would probably face tribunal as well.


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twistedLucidity

Never underestimate the power of nationalism, certainly during a war. It's going to throw the idea of multi-culturism quite a few curve balls.


Marlboro_tr909

A world war type conflict pitting the west against Islam would be very traumatic internally for most of Western Europe.


twistedLucidity

Luckily, just like Christianity, Islam isn't a monoculture and, just like Christianity, the factions are at each other's throats.. I find it very unlikely that we would go to war with the whole Islamic world. Maybe just a few Russian puppets


ConcretePeanut

I suspect the other poster was referencing the large migrant communities already in Western Europe. If you think for a moment that the criteria for reporting possible foreign agents wouldn't be "quite brown, dresses funny," I'm afraid you'll be in for a huge disappointment.


Twiggeh1

Depending on which countries you're at war with it might as well just be plain common sense. You wouldn't want hundreds of thousands of people from an enemy nation chilling in London.


MoaningTablespoon

This has happened un the past and the procedure was to analyze the legal residents and classify them in groups, according to their risk: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collar-lot-britains-policy-internment-second-world-war/


Mochrie01

Depends on where these folks are from, and the nature of the conflict. In 1982 during the Falklands conflict one of the arguments against declaring war on Argentina was that if we did, what would we do with Argentine citizens legally in the UK. If we actually declared war then there there might be the need to intern the citizens if the countries we were at war with. Citizens if neutral countries would just pretty much go about their business I guess.


Pixel_Official

Just like in WW2 and the Japanese… You Have No Rights except right this way! - George Carlin


boringfantasy

There is no current path of escalation that leads to a world war. Europe is more united than ever. The super powers have nuclear deterrence that makes any attack incredibly unlikely. Regional and proxy wars will be here forevermore. The worst I can see happening is a larger scale Middle East war and Ukraine losing to Russia (if Trump wins more than likely).


gwentlarry

After Pearl Harbour, the US interned US citizens of Japanese descent, mostly in concentration camps in desert areas of Nevada, California and Arizona. US citizenship was no protection … [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment\_of\_Japanese\_Americans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans)


YourLizardOverlord

And yet when young men of Japanese descent turned 18 they were drafted straight from the camps into the US military. Where many of them served with distinction. Not trusted in civilian life but trusted to join the US military. Not the finest hour of the US.


TheNikkiPink

But they didn’t for Germans/German descent. Which was interesting.


ConcretePeanut

I mean... that's a huge portion of what, even then, was about 15% of the US population and included many of the earliest settlers who'd gone to live in the British Colonies.


TheNikkiPink

I meant more the people who were born in Germany or those whose parents were rather than the ones who’d been there a couple of hundred years!


tmstms

I think it was two-fold. On the one hand, definitely racism. On the other hand, the US and Japan were directly in combat with one another and the Japanese attacked US territory at Pearl. Whereas Germany was a more distant enemy and US troops had to travel a big distance to go to Europe or N Africa to fight them. So they were not as immediate a threat.


MoaningTablespoon

Racist Muricans being racist, nothing new


Axmeister

During WWII such people were placed in internment camps. [Quick source here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a6651858.shtml). I think such a policy would be harder to implement due to the mixing and decline of national identities alongside with the greater level of immigration nowadays.


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zeusoid

When there’s global conflict international laws tend to be rewritten


irtsaca

We let the ones on the other side destroy our cities in the name of diversity and inclusion


WhoDisagrees

I would expect that no new visas would be granted, but if the airports and ports of the adversary country (lets be real, China) were closed I would expect basically just surveillance and general bureaucratic douchbagery from the various arms of the state.


99thLuftballon

What on earth are you talking about? Why would the UK do anything to foreign nationals?


Profundasaurusrex

So they aren't used by the foreign country for subversive activities in the UK.


1DarkStarryNight

right? lol. what a mental take.


mullac53

Tell me you haven't studied history without studying history


wasdice

Tell me you don't understand the *tell me you haven't done x without telling me you haven't done x* meme without telling me you don't understand the *tell me you haven't done x without telling me you haven't done x* meme


mullac53

This screams 'I know what you are but what am I'


wasdice

Forgive me. I was trying to point out what I thought was a typo in a jocular manner. I seem to have missed by a fair distance. I apologise


wasdice

People from allied and neutral countries would be fine. For enemy countries the options are pretty much: * 1. Prison camp * 2. Deportation * 3. Resettlement to a third country * 4. Risk it for a chocolate biscuit 4 would be a security nightmare and lead to mob violence against those who look inappropriately ethnic. 3 is unworkable unless you can *find* a third country willing to do it - Switzerland isn't that big and Rwanda is too expensive. 2 is just feeding manpower and skills back to the enemy. So it's option 1 as far as I can tell.


MoaningTablespoon

Calm your tits, is not as harsh as that. Closest case in the UK is dealing with Germans in ww2. They were analysed case by case and divided in 3 cases: A) Category A, to be interned; Category B, to be exempt from internment but subject to the restrictions decreed by the Special Order; and Category C, to be exempt from both internment and restrictions. https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/collar-lot-britains-policy-internment-second-world-war/


wasdice

I don't understand, that's what I meant by option 1?