2022 CE
The law opens citizenship to Chagossian descendants
British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency · Law & imperial government · Migration & diaspora · Memory, reparation & restitution
The Nationality and Borders Act added fee-free registration routes for descendants of people born in the British Indian Ocean Territory. The measure addressed intergenerational exclusion, but citizenship is not a right of return and does not resolve sovereignty, resettlement, or reparation
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- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
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- 2026-09-23
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