Laura Jeffery

Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK

Forced displacement and onward migration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Ethnographies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993825
• ISBN-10: 1784993824
• Artikelnr.: 44734968

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Note to readers Introduction: Forced displacement and onward migration Part
: Marginalisation and mobilisation 1. Marginalisation in Mauritius 2.
Mobilisation in exile Part II Narrating homeland, displacement, suffering,
and loss 3. Singing the homeland 4. The politics of culture in exile Part
III Onward migration 5. Echoes of marginalisation in Crawley 6. Making home
in exile Postscript. Legal and environmental barriers to resettlement
References