Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK : Forced displacement and onward migration.

The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the U.K. since 2002. It thus pro...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Jeffery, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Series:New ethnographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Marginalisation and mobilisation
  • pt. II. Narrating homeland, displacement, suffering, and loss
  • pt. III. Onward migration.