Detainment

 

Detainment

Internment

Jail

Prison

Detention is the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody, especially as a political prisoner.

Jail is a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.

Prison is a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.

Internment is the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.

Quarantine is a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.

Isolation is a state of confinement.

Concentration camps a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.

Whatever you call it, when people migrate into a new area, there is a need for shelter. All these new people need some sort of housing. The city, state, county, country needs to provide it or all these people will be sleeping on the streets.

If these people have money and can afford rent or mortgage, then they assimilate into the community. If these people are penniless, they can be turned back by a wall or force to become someone else’s problem. If these people are accepted, the humanity within us will try to find a place for those in need.

A tent might give shelter from the rain and a blanket might give some warmth but they are hungry. They are thirsty. They need bedding. They need clothing. They need washing. They need childcare. They need education. They need medical attention. They need to be entertained.

And what of tomorrow?

Many of our most productive immigrants became prominent entrepreneurs, innovators and visionaries.

Neighborhoods, suburbs or rural areas defined by a name and location are detainment centers of choice. 

Ghetto is a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. Ghetto is a place to be put in or restrict to an isolated or segregated area or group.