The second session opened with images of the 2015 refugee crisis. Shameful pictures of people fleeing poverty, religious and/or political persecution captured the attention of the older participants who relived their own unceremonious banishment from the Chagos Islands. Vivid moments of deportation scenes were recreated by those participants who experienced the traumatic homeland displacement at first hand. Two episodes recalled by Yaya, one of the oldest participants, have been selected to reproduce that fateful moment since, we believe, they are rueful testimonies of the cruelty of humankind in the face of power relations. The first one relates to the anguish she – and they all felt − when all of their dogs were gassed before their very eyes and thought that their children would be next in line. That is the moment, she conceded, when they understood that they had to agree to leave otherwise their children would be killed. The second episode is particularly alluring in its combination of domesticity and forced displacement. Just the day before, the laundry had been done and the clothes lay spread out on stones to let the sun dry them; it was while on board the ship that took them to Mauritius that she suddenly remembered about the clothes and realized then how they would remain there for ever, laying on the sun, forgotten and abandoned, a reflection of their own fate. And yet, the Chagos Islands would perennially remain with them, their children and their grandchildren. This is what the poem “Voyager Dust” by Syrian-American Mohja Kahf showed them, how “voyagers” always “carry it on their shoulders, / the dusting of the sky they left behind.” (1) As the American-transplanted Mohja Kahf realizes, the voyager’s dust that impregnated her mother’s scarves is now on her shoulders too, a poetic recognition of inter-generational communion.