Displacement among Sri Lankan Tamil migrants : the diasporic search for home in the aftermath of war / Diotima Chattoraj.
Chattoraj, Diotima, author.
2022
DS489.25.T3 C53 2022
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Title
Displacement among Sri Lankan Tamil migrants : the diasporic search for home in the aftermath of war / Diotima Chattoraj.
Author
Chattoraj, Diotima, author.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9789811681325 (electronic bk.)
9811681325 (electronic bk.)
9789811681318
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8132-5
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 180 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-8132-5 doi
Call Number
DS489.25.T3 C53 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.1194/811
Summary
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. .
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Series
Asia in transition (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 11. 2364-8260
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Print version: 9789811681318
Print version: 9789811681332
Print version: 9789811681349
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Acknowledgment.-Chapter 1: Search for Home: An Introduction.-1.1Displacement, Home, and Belonging: the Sri Lankan context
Displacement in the island: causes and outcomes
Conceptualizing "Home": a review
Researching Home: Displaced persons worldwide
Ur as the native village
Belonging and its different forms
Conceptualizing Attachment as a theoretical framework
1.2 Research Methodology
Access to the field
Documentation of research and methods
Ethical considerations in the field
1.3 Structure of the book
Chapter 2: Migration Research in the island: An overview of internal and international displacement
2.1 Historical development: civil war and migration in the island
The war: an analysis
2.2 Sri Lankan Tamils and migration: an overview
Migration causes to migration outcomes: Island-wide misery or contentment?
Migration to Tamil Nadu: Life as a refugee in India
Migrating to Australia: a better life?
2.3 Post-war scenario: Impact of the war
Jaffna, a Tamil homeland: The IDPs at peace?
Reconstruction and Development: role of governmental and non-governmental agencies
2.4 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Shifting notions of Ur/home: narratives from Sri Lanka
3.1 Shifting meanings of Ur: different tales to tell
Time, socio-economic needs and aspirations to the good life
Father versus son: conceptualizing Ur from two different age groups
The idea of home changed with time: Shaliny's story
Ur as a prison: Padmini's accounts
Ur as a source of income: regaining lost status
3.2 Concluding remarks
Chapter 4: Home or Ur: Changing meanings for the refugees in Tamil Nadu, India
4.1 Ur in Sri Lanka and home in India: Elderly refugees' narratives on home
4.2 Ur as a strange place: the changed idea of home among the others
4.3 Concluding remarks
Chapter 5: Attachment, detachment or both: voices of the displaced
5.1 Attachment to Ur: (actual) return to get related with memories and people
5.2 Attachment to Ur: (actual) return to get connected with broken memories
5.3 Attachment to Ur: nostalgia and ambivalence
5.4 From attachment to detachment
5.5 Detachment/ non-attachment
Attachment and its contrasting images
5.6 Concluding remarks
Chapter 6: The Tamil Ur
6.1 Discussing Ur
6.2 'Home' versus 'Ur'
6.3 Relating the two concepts: 'Ur' and 'Attachment'
Chapter 7: Conclusion: an outlook
7.1 Home and Attachment: the varied meanings
7.3 Post-war development: ideas and visions
7.4 On the road to recovery: Tamil diaspora as investors
7.5 What the future holds: Fate of the displaced persons
Bibliography
Appendix.

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