War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean
The US Military Base at Diego Garcia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9954034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Vine (0000-0002-9339-7320, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 111-143 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0020-7985.2004.00291.x |
| OpenAlex | W2047509630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 14 |
Between 1967 and 1973, the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their homelands so the US Government could construct a strategic military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The people of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago now live in poverty in the island nations of Mauritius and Seychelles, nearly 2,000 kilometres from their homes. Analysing formerly classified government documents, this paper demonstrates how between the end of World War II and the final removals in 1973, the US Government planned, ordered, financed, helped orchestrate, and participated in the expulsion of the exiled people, known as Chagossians or Ilois. While some have detailed the role the British Government played in the removals, this paper clarifies how the US Government bears primary responsibility for the expulsion. Ultimately the creation of the base at Diego Garcia and the expulsion of the Chagossians reveal much about how the United States has exercised its political, economic, and military will on the world since World War II. The paper explains the significance of Diego Garcia and the expulsion of the Chagossians to post‐war US foreign relations, incorporating comparative analyses of other forced migrations caused by the construction of US military facilities, including those in the Marshall Islands; Thule, Greenland; Okinawa, Japan; and Vieques, Puerto Rico
Archaeology · Archipelago · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Garcia · Geography · Government (linguistics · Humanities · Military Base · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Public Administration
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The post-colonial is neocolonial in the Indian Ocean region
Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire
In Their Places
Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity
From Exception to Empire
Afterword
Empire
Territorial Acquisitions Are Among the Landmarks of Our History’
Zones and routes
Repeating Islands of Resistance
The Island of Thieves”
The Voldemort of Imperial History
Deporting Cambodian Refugees
Decolonising the special relationship
The Spirit of the Convention and the Letter of the Colony
State Co-offending
The US military base network and contemporary colonialism
Anthropology and Militarism
How a plantation became paradise
The tragedy of American diplomacy
Guardians of the gulf
Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East
The Indian Ocean in Global Politics
The Indian ocean
Blowback
The Great Game
African Islands and Enclaves
War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean
Limuria, the Lesser Dependencies of Mauritius
The Bikinians. A Study in Forced Migration
Demographic Survey of the British Colonial Empire
Making War at Home in the United States
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |