Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced Displacement and Onward Migration - Rilegato

Libro 14 di 29: New Ethnographies

Jeffery, Laura

 
9780719084300: Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced Displacement and Onward Migration
Rilegato
ISBN 10: 071908430X ISBN 13: 9780719084300
Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2011

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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 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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Informazioni sull?autore

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

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Editore
Manchester Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
071908430X
ISBN 13 
9780719084300
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
155
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9781784993825: Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the Uk: Forced Displacement and Onward Migration

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ISBN 10:  1784993824 ISBN 13:  9781784993825
Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2016
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