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Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK : forced displacement and onward migration / Laura Jeffery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffery, Laura, author.
- Series:
- New ethnographies.
- New ethnographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chagossians--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Chagossians.
- Chagossians--Mauritius--Social conditions.
- Population transfers--Chagossians.
- Population transfers.
- British Indian Ocean Territory--Emigration and immigration.
- British Indian Ocean Territory.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Great Britain.
- Mauritius--Emigration and immigration.
- Mauritius.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 155 pages) : maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text compares the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Marginalisation and mobilisation
- pt. II. Narrating homeland, displacement, suffering, and loss
- pt. III. Onward migration.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781847797896
- 184779789X
- 9781781702451
- 1781702454
- 9781847794130
- 1847794130
- OCLC:
- 818847538
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