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Eviction from the Chagos Islands: Displacement and Struggle for Identity Against Two World Powers
Contributor(s): Evers, Sandra (Editor), Kooy, Marry (Editor)

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 ISBN: 9004202609     ISBN-13: 9789004202603
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $115.90  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - General
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
Dewey: 969.7
LCCN: 2011007059
Series: African History
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" L (1.10 lbs) 312 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 36
 
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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 Mauritius and the Seychelles, where livelihoods are poor and marginalized. The Chagossians are currently engaged in a campaign seeking right of return to the archipelago and recognition as a people forced to live in diaspora.
 
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