Internment camps (Topical Term)

Jane McGrath "Did the United States Put Its Own Citizens in Concentration Camps During WWII?" 7 May 2009, article on How Stuff Works WWW site, April 16, 2021: (Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the decision to relocate more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans from their homes on the West Coast to camps around the country. Although FDR himself called them "concentration camps," we don't use that term today -- it's loaded because of its connection to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. ... Though many argue that the forced relocation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans was primarily motivated by racism, the U.S. government cited national security reasons for the sweeping relocation. Nazi concentration camps were designed to extinguish the Jewish people, who the Nazis considered lesser beings, from the human race. Clearly, the use of the term "concentration camp" to describe U.S. relocation camps is misleading; for that reason, scholars prefer to call them internment camps.) https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/japanese-internment-camp.htm

Adrian Myers, Gabriel Moshenska G. (eds) Archaeologies of Internment. 2011: page 4 (Internment camps are often used to control groups and populations on the move.)

OED online, April 14, 2021: internment camp (a camp in which prisoners of war, enemy aliens, political prisoners, etc., are detained without trial) concentration camp (A camp in which large numbers of people, esp. political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution)