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In the case of the Chagos Islands, it is not immemorial. There are Chagossians alive today who can still remember the azure and indigo seas around the archipelago. For them, this is a very real and immediate issue. But the only way they maintain their nationality, sundered as they are from their ancestral homeland, is through what it now says on their passports. They have the identity of citizens of the British Indian Ocean Territory. That is what risks being dissolved into wider nationalities in the Seychelles, Mauritius or here.