Comment by sofixa
7 months ago
They still spent a few centuries there, similar to the Falkland islanders. Descent is irrelevant - a group of people has been living in a previously uninhabited place for a few centuries, it's their home.
And they weren't "returned", they were expelled from their homes and dumped somewhere else with no assistance.
That would be true if it were the same workers descending from prior workers. But especially in the last decades it was exactly the opposite.