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Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK [[electronic resource] ] : forced displacement and onward migration / / Laura Jeffery



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Autore: Jeffery Laura Visualizza persona
Titolo: Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK [[electronic resource] ] : forced displacement and onward migration / / Laura Jeffery Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester Universiry Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
Disciplina: 305.89141
Soggetto topico: Chagossians - Great Britain - History - 20th century
Chagossians - Mauritius - History - 20th century
Population transfers - Chagossians
Soggetto geografico: British Indian Ocean Territory Emigration and immigration
Great Britain Emigration and immigration
Mauritius Emigration and immigration
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Marginalisation and mobilisation -- pt. II. Narrating homeland, displacement, suffering, and loss -- pt. III. Onward migration.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Chagos islanders in Mauritius and the UK  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-245-4
1-84779-413-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465190903321
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Serie: New ethnographies.