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LIT-1598: Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced Displacement and Onward Migration

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StatusUnavailable — searched 2026-10-29 for a lawful full text and none was reached, so it is not read and no NOTE is filed. OpenAlex reports the book closed with no open location. Manchester University Press sells it in print and as an ebook; De Gruyter Brill, Torrossa, Perlego and library catalogues (JSTOR, Project MUSE) offer only paid or institutional access. Web searches for an open-access edition or an author's deposit found none. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied. Human Rights Watch's report (LIT-1593, NOTE-1365), read the same day, does not cite it but confirms from its own interviews that Chagossians disagree about sovereignty while agreeing on return.
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Tagssocial-science, society-and-governance
ReportsCASE-169 — The Chagossians, 1965 to now: a people expelled from the Chagos Archipelago between 1967 and 1973 for the Diego Garcia base, dispersed to Mauritius, the Seychelles and Britain, whose practices, kinship and political organization continued or arose in exile while sovereignty over the islands was settled between states

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Jeffery, L. (2011). Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK: Forced Displacement and Onward Migration. Manchester University Press. doi:10.7228/manchester/9780719084300.001.0001.

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A3 cited “Laura Jeffery’s ethnography” for the disagreements among Chagossians about sovereignty, the base and strategy, which CASE-169 uses for CLAIM-418: a shared perspective with divergent political judgments. Registered as the likeliest source; the exchange named no title, and A3 also cited a plants-as-heritage study by Jeffery that is not identified here.

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