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

• Autore: Jeffery Laura
• 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 non controllato: Chagos Archipelago; Chagos islanders; Chagossians; Crawley; Indian Ocean; Mauritius; culture in exile; displaced people; forced displacement; onward migration
• 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
• ISBN: 1-84779-789-X; 1-78170-245-4; 1-84779-413-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791915403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New ethnographies.