Eviction from the Chagos Islands
Displacement and Struggle for Identity Against Two World Powers
Biographical note
Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Ph.D., is associate professor and senior researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam. She acts as convener of an international working group on the anthropology of children: www.anthropologyofchildren.net and directs a research project on foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa and Madagascar.
Marry Kooy is a freelance journalist who holds a Masters degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from VU University Amsterdam. She is reading for her second Masters degree, in Christian Studies of Science and Society, at the Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam.
Marry Kooy is a freelance journalist who holds a Masters degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from VU University Amsterdam. She is reading for her second Masters degree, in Christian Studies of Science and Society, at the Department of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam.
Readership
This book is of interest to readers interested in (forced) migration, displacement, diaspora, refugee studies, geopolitics, slavery, colonialism, post-colonialism, memory and retrieval, indigenous peoples, Mauritius, Seychelles and Indian Ocean Studies.
Reviews
'This collection is a comprehensive compendium of texts on the Chagossians and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Not only is it of value to those familiar with the islands and their inhabitants, but it provides a thorough overview of the islands’ history, culture, traumas and imaginaries for those for whom the story is little known'.
Iain Walker, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Iain Walker, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ......................................................................................vii
Timeline .........................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... xv
Redundancy on the Instalment Plan: Chagossians and the Right to be Called a People ........................1
Sandra J.T.M. Evers & Marry Kooy
From the Birth of the Ilois to the “Footprint of Freedom”: A History of Chagos and the Chagossians ............11
David Vine
Clement Siatous: Chagossian Artist in Exile ............................................37
“Native Ilois of Chagos”: Excerpts from the Narratives of Dussercle (1933–36) .............41
Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing
Atman Ramchalaon: Seeking the Facts .....................................................59
The Making of the Chagos Affair: Myths and Reality ............................61
Jocelyn Chan Low
Charlesia Alexis: The Struggle of the Chagossian Women .....................81
Sorrow, Sadness, and Impoverishment: The Lives of Chagossians in Mauritius .............83
Laura Jeffery and David Vine
Bernadette Dugasse: Born in Diego Garcia December 1956 ...............................................103
Chagossians Twice Forgotten: Exile in the Seychelles ..........................105
David Vine
Allen Vincatassin: Negotiating Life in Mauritius and the UK..............125
Responsibility and Redress: Th e Chagossian Litigation in the English Courts ..............127
Stephen Allen
Olivier Bancoult: Leading the Way Back to Chagos ..............................153
Self-Determination in the Post-Colonial Era: Prospects for the Chagossians ...................157
Maureen Tong
Aurélie Marie-Lisette Talate: Young Again in Diego .............................181
Cleaning for the Dead: The Chagossian Pilgrimage to their Homeland ........................183
Steffen F. Johannessen
Perspectives of a UK Member of Parliament: “Chagos, Just Plain Injustice” ...............217
‘A Lost People’? Chagossian onward Migration and Echoes of Marginalisation in Crawley
Laura Jeffery ........................................................................................ 219
Reverend Mario Li Hing: Committed to the Chagossian Cause .............................239
Longing and Belonging in Real Time: How Chagossian Children in Mauritius Imagine the Chagos Islands ....241
Sandra J.T.M. Evers
About the Authors .....................................................................................273
Bibliography ...............................................................................................277
Index ...........................................................................................................289
List of Illustrations ......................................................................................vii
Timeline .........................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... xv
Redundancy on the Instalment Plan: Chagossians and the Right to be Called a People ........................1
Sandra J.T.M. Evers & Marry Kooy
From the Birth of the Ilois to the “Footprint of Freedom”: A History of Chagos and the Chagossians ............11
David Vine
Clement Siatous: Chagossian Artist in Exile ............................................37
“Native Ilois of Chagos”: Excerpts from the Narratives of Dussercle (1933–36) .............41
Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing
Atman Ramchalaon: Seeking the Facts .....................................................59
The Making of the Chagos Affair: Myths and Reality ............................61
Jocelyn Chan Low
Charlesia Alexis: The Struggle of the Chagossian Women .....................81
Sorrow, Sadness, and Impoverishment: The Lives of Chagossians in Mauritius .............83
Laura Jeffery and David Vine
Bernadette Dugasse: Born in Diego Garcia December 1956 ...............................................103
Chagossians Twice Forgotten: Exile in the Seychelles ..........................105
David Vine
Allen Vincatassin: Negotiating Life in Mauritius and the UK..............125
Responsibility and Redress: Th e Chagossian Litigation in the English Courts ..............127
Stephen Allen
Olivier Bancoult: Leading the Way Back to Chagos ..............................153
Self-Determination in the Post-Colonial Era: Prospects for the Chagossians ...................157
Maureen Tong
Aurélie Marie-Lisette Talate: Young Again in Diego .............................181
Cleaning for the Dead: The Chagossian Pilgrimage to their Homeland ........................183
Steffen F. Johannessen
Perspectives of a UK Member of Parliament: “Chagos, Just Plain Injustice” ...............217
‘A Lost People’? Chagossian onward Migration and Echoes of Marginalisation in Crawley
Laura Jeffery ........................................................................................ 219
Reverend Mario Li Hing: Committed to the Chagossian Cause .............................239
Longing and Belonging in Real Time: How Chagossian Children in Mauritius Imagine the Chagos Islands ....241
Sandra J.T.M. Evers
About the Authors .....................................................................................273
Bibliography ...............................................................................................277
Index ...........................................................................................................289
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