In November 2004 I completed a Masters Thesis in Historical Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The subject of my thesis was a special wartime welfare program operated by the federal government to benefit some of the persons affected by relocations and internments conducted during the War.

The thesis is being published here for the potential interest of scholars.

The U.S. Social Security Board and its Program of Assistance and Services to Enemy Aliens and Others During the Relocations and Internments of World War II

Frontmatter

Abstract

Preface: Scope and Outline of this Work

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

I. THE WARTIME INTERNMENTS & OTHER “RESTRICTIVE GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS”

II. THE ORIGINS OF THE ASEAO PROGRAM

III. THE ASEAO PROGRAM IN OPERATION
General Overview of the Program
The Phased Pattern of Assistance

IV. CASE STUDIES OF THE ASEAO PROGRAM
Brief Case Summaries
A Detailed Look at a Particular Case

V. STATE VARIATIONS IN THE ASEAO PROGRAM

VI. FEDERAL POLICYMAKING IN THE ASEAO PROGRAM

VII. THE ASEAO PROGRAM IN PERSPECTIVE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTE: The following material was not included in the original Masters Thesis as submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. It has been added subsequently by the author, based on the same research reported in the briefer version.

APPENDIX 1: CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS RELATED TO THE ASEAO PROGRAM

APPENDIX 2: LIST OF INTERNMENT FACILITIES

APPENDIX 3: A PHOTOGRAPHIC SAMPLER
Introduction
ASEAO Program Clients
The Internees
The Assembly Centers
The Relocation Centers
Life in Manzanar