[sofixa]

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.

[o11c]

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.