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Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced displacement and onward migration
ISBN: 9781847794130
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology;

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 provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community.

Laura Jeffery is Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of EdinburghLaura Jeffery is Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh