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A Tamil Asylum Diaspora

Author : Chris McDowell
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9781571819178
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Tamil Asylum Diaspora written by Chris McDowell and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study focusing on Sri Lankan Tamils from the Jaffna Peninsula who, due to ethno-nationalist violence and repression, sought asylum in Switzerland. McDowell (research officer, refugee studies, U. of Oxford) bases his research on a combination of anthropological fieldwork and archival material, investigating the development of the Tamil community in Switzerland, the impact of Swiss federal policy and practice on them, and the economic impact of accommodating at least 200,000 refugees. The study provides information on the Swiss people's popular opinion (opposed to reaction) and the changes made to re-shape asylum policies taking both humanitarian and economic realities into account--a methodology being adopted by other European countries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Sense of Viidu

Author : Niro Kandasamy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811513694
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book A Sense of Viidu written by Niro Kandasamy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia. It explores the theme of home—from what is left behind to what is brought or (re)created in a new space—and all the complex processes that ensue as a result of leaving a land defined by conflict. The context of the book is unique since it focuses on the ten-year period since the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009. Although the war has officially come to an end, conflict continues in diverse and insidious forms, which we present from the point of view of those who have left Sri Lanka. The multidisciplinary nature of the book means that various aspects of Sri Lankan Tamil experiences are documented including trauma, violence, resettlement, political action, cultural and religious heritage, and intergenerational transmission. This book draws on qualitative methods from the fields of history, geography, sociology, sociolinguistics, psychology and psychiatry. Methodological enquiries range from oral histories and in-depth interviews to ethnography and self-reflexive accounts. To complement these academic chapters, creative contributions by prominent Sri Lankan artists in Australia seek to provide personalised and alternative interpretations on the theme of home. These include works from playwrights, novelists and community arts practitioners who also identify as human rights activists.

Life on the Outside

Author : Øivind Fuglerud
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life on the Outside written by Øivind Fuglerud and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Fuglerud study is a prototype for any anthropologist or political scientist working on a politicised-radicalised Diaspora.' Ethnic Conflict Research Digest'This book about a recent immigrant group (Sri Lankan Tamils) in a European liberal democracy (Norway) is paradigmatic for how the anthropology of a displaced population ought to be done anywhere in the western world. ... Based on extensive field research in Norway and brief but insightful research in Sri Lanka, Life on the Outside is an elegant and effective blend of theory and ethnography. One of the very best in refugee studies to date.' E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia UniversityThis study of the Tamil diaspora is one of the first full ethnographic studies of a post-colonial migrant community, and a major contribution to the study of migration, globalisation, identity politics and 'long distance' nationalism from an anthropological perspective.Fuglerud's study traces the history of Tamil migration, from the arrival of the economic migrants of the 1960s to the 'asylum seekers' of the mid 1980s onwards. He draws unnerving parallels between the status of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka, as a beleaguered and persecuted minority waging a war of liberation, and as a displaced, marginalised and excluded refugee community.Fuglerud argues that, in the process of displacement, particular aspects of Tamil culture - marriage, dowry, chastity and ritual - acquire a heightened significance. He examines the contradictions and inconsistencies which characterise the Tamil refugee communities, and the success of revolutionary Tamil nationalism in exile, highlighting the transnational nature of identity politics.

Refugee Dilemma

Author : V. Suryanarayan
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9353221455
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Refugee Dilemma written by V. Suryanarayan and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine years have passed since the ethnic conflict ended in Sri Lanka. The hope that Sri Lankan refugees would return to the island has been belied. This book highlights the dilemma faced by the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in the context of the twists and turns in Indo-Sri Lanka relations. The global refugee phenomenon and the Indian experience; the movement of Sri Lankan refugees to different parts of the world; the rise and fall of the Tamil Tigers and the competitive nature of Sinhala politics which stands in the way of ethnic reconciliation are analysed in detail. The peculiar problems faced by refugees of Indian origin are highlighted. The Author makes a plea for the enactment of a National Refugee Law; which should combine the humanitarian concerns of the refugees and security interests of the Indian State.

The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora

Author : Peter Reeves
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814260835
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora written by Peter Reeves and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well over a million people of Sri Lankan origin live outside South Asia. The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this island. The volume is a joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, and Editions Didier Millet. It focuses on the relationship between culture and economy in the Sri Lanka diaspora in the context of globalisation, increased transnational culture flows and new communication technologies. In addition to the geographic mapping of the Sri Lanka diaspora in the various continents, thematic chapters include topics on “long distance nationalism”, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.

Funding the "final War"

Author : Jo Becker
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funding the "final War" written by Jo Becker and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2006 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And recommendations. Methodology - Recommendations. -- Background. War in Sri Lanka - The Tamil diaspora and support for the LTTE. -- A culture of fear: LTTE intimidation, threats, and violence. -- LTTE control of Hindu temples in the West. -- Paying for "the final war": LTTE fundraising and extortion within the Tamil diaspora in late 2005 and early 2006. Pressures to give money - Attempts to refuse and resist - Fundraising versus extortion - Response from the World Tamil Movement. -- Extortion of Tamil expatriates visiting Sri Lanka. Priya's story - Common extortion methods. -- Response of the U.K. and Canadian authorities. -- Conclusion. -- Acknowledgements.

Displacement Among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants

Author : Diotima Chattoraj
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811681325
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Displacement Among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants written by Diotima Chattoraj and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the concept of ‘home’ or ‘place of origin’ (expressed in Tamil as ‘Ur’) and its various dimensions, in turn related to issues of belonging, attachment, detachment, and commonality among the war-affected population in the post-war era of Sri Lanka. Little research has been undertaken on displacement and forced migration since the end of the war, and so this book provides new insight into the intersections between externally and internally displaced people and notions of home in relation to gender, age, caste and class. It excavates the roots of the problem of not being able to return due to combinations of uncertainty, unemployment, and the loss of people and property. The author shows that notions of ‘home’ vary considerably depending on multiple variables, and this is particularly pronounced between the different generations. The book also confronts how the migration from Sri Lanka over the border to India has brought on discernible changes to the lives of women in particular, in transforming their identities in multiple re-invented cultural manifestations, and cultivating a new kind of attachment towards their new homes. Interdisciplinary in tenor, this book will be of interest to scholars in development studies with a focus on South Asia, as well as graduate students and researchers in the fields of migration, conflict studies, Sri Lanka studies, and sociology. It may also have an impact on policymakers owing to its comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the consequences of the Sri Lankan civil war for Tamils.

Migration Control in the North Atlantic World

Author : Andreas Fahrmeir
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571813282
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Migration Control in the North Atlantic World written by Andreas Fahrmeir and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration movements of the 20th century have led to an increased interest in similarly dramatic population changes in the preceding century. The contributors to this volume - legal scholars, sociologists, political scientist and historians - focus on migration control in the 19th century, concentrating on three areas in particular: the impact of the French Revolution on the development of modern citizenship laws and on the development of new forms of migration control in France and elsewhere; the theory and practice of migration control in various European states is examined, focusing on the control of paupers, emigrants and "ordinary" travelers as well as on the interrelationship between the different administrative levels - local, regional and national - at which migration control was exercised. Finally, on the development of migration control in two countries of immigration: the United States and France. Taken altogether, these essays demonstrate conclusively that the image of the 19th century as a liberal era during which migration was unaffected by state intervention is untenable and in serious need of revision.

Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?

Author : Louise Pirouet
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571814685
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain? by : Louise Pirouet

Download or read book Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain? written by Louise Pirouet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirouet, a Briton who has taught at universities in Uganda and Kenya, surveys UK immigration policy between 1987 and 1999 and finds that xenophobia frequently has won out, in spite of political rhetoric in praise of giving shelter to those fleeing persecution. "The legislation passed in the last decade has made it progressively more difficult for anyone seeking asylum in the UK and life progressively more uncertain and uncomfortable for those who, against all odds, manage to reach this country," she writes. "A mixed message is coming from government....Britain is now irreversibly a multicultural nation, and the only healthy kind of self-definition must take that into account." c. Book News Inc.

Camp Life of Sri Lankan Refugees in India

Author : Arockiam Kulandai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000452980
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Camp Life of Sri Lankan Refugees in India written by Arockiam Kulandai and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the mass migration of refugees into India during the Sri Lankan civil war, the lives of the displaced people in refugee camps and the politics around the issue. It analyses the citizenship policies in India and the social, economic, psychological, political and legal implications of the laws on the lives of Tamil refugees. Further, it examines the protracted refugee situations in other parts of the globe to build a comparative case study of the Sri Lankan refugees. It delves into the stories and lives of these people in their home country before the war, the crisis and trauma of war and the experience of living in refugee camps. The role played by the state government of Tamil Nadu, the Indian government and NGOs towards the protection of these refugees and state of facilities for health, safety, education, among others, in the camps is explored. Finally, the possibility of integration and solutions like voluntary repatriation or the granting of citizenship for the people living in these camps are explored, This book will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of refugee and border studies, human rights, political studies, international relations, political sociology, peace and conflict studies, war and strategic studies, and South Asian studies.

Stories from the Diaspora

Author : Selvy Thiruchandran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Diaspora written by Selvy Thiruchandran and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pain, Pride, and Politics

Author : Amarnath Amarasingam
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820348147
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Pain, Pride, and Politics written by Amarnath Amarasingam and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and revises currently accepted analytical frameworks relating to diasporic communities. This book adds to our understanding of a particular diasporic group, while contributing to the theoretical literature in the area. Throughout, Amarasingam argues that transnational diasporic mobilization is at times determined and driven as much by internal organizational and communal developments as by events in their countries of origin, a phenomenon that has received relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. His work provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which a separatist sociopolitical movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the diaspora and the struggles that are involved in this process.

Diaspore Tamil from Sri Lanks

Author : Muruga Gunasingam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646597157
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Diaspore Tamil from Sri Lanks written by Muruga Gunasingam and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Migration Past, Migration Future

Author : Klaus J. Bade
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811257
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Migration Past, Migration Future written by Klaus J. Bade and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is an immigrant country. Germany is not. This volume shatters this widely held myth and reveals the remarkable similarities (as well as the differences) between the two countries. Essays by leading German and American historians and demographers describe how these two countries have become to have the largest number of immigrants among advanced industrial countries, how their conceptions of citizenship and nationality differ, and how their ethnic compositions are likely to be transformed in the next century as a consequence ofmigration, fertility trends, citizenship and naturalization laws, and public attitudes.

Documenting Transnational Migration

Author : Richard T. Antoun†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9780857455376
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Documenting Transnational Migration written by Richard T. Antoun† and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-07-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions such as birth control, women's work, retention of tribal law, and the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain migration.

Finding Refuge in Canada

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771993014
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Finding Refuge in Canada written by George Melnyk and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people are displaced each year by war, persecution, and famine and the global refugee population continues to grow. Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However, refugees have encountered varying kinds of reception in Canada. Finding Refuge in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation is a collection of personal narratives about the refugee experience in Canada. It includes critical perspectives from authors from diverse backgrounds, including refugees, advocates, front-line workers, private sponsors, and civil servants. The narratives collected here confront dominant public discourse about refugee identities and histories and provide deep insight into the social, political, and cultural challenges and opportunities that refugees experience in Canada. Contributors consider Canada’s response to various groups of refugees and how Canadian perspectives on war, conflict, and peace are constructed through the refugee support experience. These individual stories humanize the global refugee crisis and challenge readers to reflect on the transformative potential of more equitable policies and processes. Contributions by Howard Adelman, Irene Boisier Policzer, Shelley Campagnola, Matida Daffeh, Eusebio Garcia, Julia Holland, Bill Janzen, Katharine Lake Berz, Michael Molloy, Adam Policzer, Pablo Policzer, Victor Porter, Boban Stojanović, Cyrus Sundar Singh, and Flora Terah

Immigration Controls

Author : Kay Hailbronner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810892
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Immigration Controls written by Kay Hailbronner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most pressing questions in immigration law and policy today concern the problem of immigration controls. How are immigration laws administered, and how are they enforced against those who enter and remain in a receiving country without legal permission? Comparing the United States and Germany, two of the four extended essays in this volume concern enforcement; the other two address techniques for managing high-volume asylum systems in both countries.