Chagossians lost land, work, and schooling solely for living on a Navy-desired island.

Evidence

“We were living like animals,” Aurélie said. “Land? We had none.… Work? We had none. Our children weren’t going to school.” The Chagossians had lost almost everything, for no reason other than the happenstance of living on an island desired by the U.S. Navy. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 187

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the structural displacement themes prominent in A Midwife’s Tale and postcolonial studies of dispossession.