Displacement Among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants The Diasporic Search for Home in the Aftermath of War
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 undert...
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Springer Nature Singapore
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Asia in Transition
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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?
- 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
- 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