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Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK : forced displacement and onward migration / Laura Jeffery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffery, Laura.
- Series:
- New ethnographies.
- New ethnographies
- New Ethnographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chagossians--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Chagossians.
- Chagossians--Mauritius--History--20th century.
- 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 (177 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester Universiry Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 UK since 2002. It thus provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community.Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Mauritius and Crawley (West Sussex), the six chapters explore Chagossians' challenging lives in Mauritius, the mobilisation of
- 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 bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847797896
- 184779789X
- 9781781702451
- 1781702454
- 9781847794130
- 1847794130
- OCLC:
- 818847538
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