Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK : Forced displacement and onward migration.
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TextSeries: New ethnographiesPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781847794130
- 1847794130
- 9781781702451
- 1781702454
- Chagossians -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Chagossians -- Mauritius -- History -- 20th century
- Population transfers -- Chagossians
- British Indian Ocean Territory -- Emigration and immigration
- Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
- Mauritius -- Emigration and immigration
- Chagossiens -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Chagossiens -- Île Maurice -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Transferts de population -- Chagossiens
- Chagos (British Indian Ocean Territory) -- Émigration et immigration
- Île Maurice -- Émigration et immigration
- Migration, Immigration & Emigration
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
- Chagossians
- Emigration and immigration
- Population transfers -- Chagossians
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Great Britain
- Mauritius
- 1900-1999
- 305.89141
- DS349.9.C42 J44 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Marginalisation and mobilisation -- pt. II. Narrating homeland, displacement, suffering, and loss -- pt. III. Onward migration.
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 U.K. 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 the community, reformulations of the homeland, the politics of culture in exile, onward migration to Crawley, and attempts to make a home in successive locations. Jeffery illuminates how displaced people romanticise their homeland through an exploration of changing representations of the Chagos Archipelago in song lyrics. Offering further ethnographic insights into the politics of culture, she shows how Chagossians in exile engage with contrasting conceptions of culture ranging from expectations of continuity and authenticity to enactments of change, loss and revival. The book will appeal particularly to social scientists specialising in the fields of migration studies, the anthropology of displacement, political and legal anthropology, African studies, Indian Ocean studies and the anthropology of Britain, as well as to readers interested in the Chagossian case study.
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