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Challenges and prospects for the Chagos Archipelago / edited by Laura Jeffery, Chris Monaghan, and Mairi O'Gorman.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Jeffery, Laura, editor.
Monaghan, Christopher, editor.
O'Gorman, Mairi, editor.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Series:
Small state studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
British Indian Ocean Territory--International status.
British Indian Ocean Territory.
British Indian Ocean Territory--Politics and government.
Chagossians--Legal status, laws, etc--Social aspects.
Chagossians.
Chagossians--Political activity.
Chagossians--Ethnic identity.
Population transfers--Chagossians.
Population transfers.
Forced migration--British Indian Ocean Territory.
Forced migration.
Refugees--British Indian Ocean Territory.
Refugees.
Human rights--British Indian Ocean Territory.
Human rights.
British Indian Ocean Territory--History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2025.
Contents:
The Chagos saga: 21st century dispute about incomplete decolonisation / Milan Meetarbhan
The Chagos Archipelago in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world history / Richard Allen
Origins, legacies, and future: the Chagossians, a population in exile / Priya Bahadoor
So immaculate
Peros Banhos, Saloman, Diego Garcia / Saradha Soobrayen
Chagos: plantation or paradise? Island Edens and Indian Ocean empires, 1600-2023 / Chris Hill
Human rights and the Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Archipelago / Sue Farran
Return of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and Chagossian identity: constitutional, legal, and political perspectives / Charles Fombad
Political and legal debates about Chagossian ethnicity and indigeneity / Laura Jeffery
Intergenerational challenges, cultural identify, and future prospects for Chagossian communities in the UK / Thierry Mandarin
Ayapana in a British plastic plant pot / Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
Certainty and uncertainty: native and older generation Chagossian perspectives from Mauritius amid the UK Government's Nationality and Borders Act 2022 / Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
Limuria is in our trust / Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
Voicing the trauma of the lost territory: creative writing, therapy and the Chagos Refugees Group / Esther Pujolràs-Noguer and Felicity Hand
This poem is intuitively aware of the erasure of the Chagos Archipelago... / Saradha Soobrayen
Excerpt from Diego Garcia, a novel / Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
The British courts and the Chagos story: an exercise in colonial justice / Satvinder Juss and Chris Monaghan
Stakeholders or bystanders? An attempt by Seychellois Chagossians to intervene in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea / Jamie Trinidad, Stephen Allen and Thomas Burri
The 1966 BIOT Agreement and Polaris / Samuel Bashfield
The power behind the throne: the US Government must face its responsibility for the Chagossian exile / David Vine
'UK Ambassador lobbied senators to hide Diego Garcia's role in rendition' / Saradha Soobrayen
The Indo-Pacific and the Chagos Archipelago: two logic's, two futures / Peter Harris
Flagpole fights, courtroom clashes, and coconut crabs / Owen Bowcott
Why has it taken 25 years for the UK to start negotiating an overall settlement on Chagos with Mauritius? / David Snoxell
An ode to the Chagossian zistwar / Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
Afterword / Sabrina Jean.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Online version: Challenges and prospects for the Chagos Archipelago
ISBN:
9781040227589 (electronic bk.)
1040227589 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
40032568341
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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