Title Eviction from the Chagos Islands : displacement and struggle for identity against two world powers / edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Marry Kooy

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Series African history ; v. 1 African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 1. Contents Eviction from the Chagos Islands; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Timeline; Acknowledgements; Redundancy on the Instalment Plan: Chagossians and the Right to be Called a People; From the Birth of the Ilois to the "Footprint of Freedom": A History of chagos and the Chagossians; Clement Siatous: Chagossian Artist in Exile; "Native Ilois of Chagos": Excerpts from the Narratives of Dussercle (1933-36); Atman Ramchalaon: Seeking the Facts; The Making of the Chagos Affair: Myths and Reality; Charlesia Alexis: The Struggle of the Chagossian Women Sorrow, Sadness, and Impoverishment: The Lives of Chagossians in MauritiusBernadette Dugasse: Born in Diego Garcia December 1956 ; Chagossians Twice Forgotten: Exile in the Seychelles; Allen Vincatassin: Negotiating Life in Mauritius and the UK; Responsibility and Redress: The Chagossian Litigationin the English Courts; Olivier Bancoult: Leading the Way Back to Chagos; Self-Determination in the Post-Colonial era: Prospects for the Chagossians; Aurélie Marie-Lisette Talate: Young Again in Diego; Cleaning for the Dead: The Chagossian Pilgrimageto their Homeland Perspectives of a UK Member of Parliament: "Chagos, just Plain Injustice"A Lost People'? Chagossian onward Migration and Echoes of Marginalisation in Crawley; Reverend Mario Li Hing: Committed to the Chagossian Cause; Longing and Belonging in Real Time: How Chagossian Children in Mauritius Imagine the Chagos Islands; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index Summary This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a strategic U.S. military base. Initially part of colonial Mauritius, Chagos was integrated into a new colony named the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. In 1966, Great Britain transferred control of Diego Garcia, the largest Chagos island, to the Americans under a fifty year lease. The expulsions which followed were designed to satisfy the U.S. demand for an unpopulated territory. The Chagossians were thus forced to resettle in Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Population transfers -- Chagossians. Chagossians -- History Chagossians -- Biography Refugees -- British Indian Ocean Territory Refugees -- Mauritius Refugees -- Seychelles HISTORY -- Africa -- General. Chagossians Population transfers -- Chagossians Refugees SUBJECT British Indian Ocean Territory -- History -- 20th century Subject British Indian Ocean Territory Mauritius Seychelles Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Evers, Sandra Kooy, Marry ISBN 9789004204416 9004204415 1283161435 9781283161435

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