Settler Military Camps: Internment and Prisoner-of-War Camps across the Pacific Islands

This chapter focuses on the wartime internment of Japanese immigrants, Chamorros, Marshallese, and prisoners of war across Hawai‘i, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands, and furthermore the circulation of prisoners between these camps and those in the US continent. Internment and prisoner of war camps discussed include the Honolulu Immigration Station, the Sand Island Quarantine Center, and the Honouliuli Internment Camp in Hawai‘i, as well as Camp Susupe in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Decentering the focus on internment as a domestic project of racialized exclusion that took place only in the continental United States, this chapter analyzes how this transnational network of camps used varying logics of racialized military detention, Indigenous displacement, and racial liberal biopolitics as it evacuated and interned Asian and Indigenous peoples across lands acquired for US military projects.