Displacement Among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants The Diasporic Search for Home in the Aftermath of War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chattoraj, Diotima (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XV, 180 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:2nd ed. 2022.
Series:Asia in Transition, 11
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8132-5
Format: Electronic Book
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?
  • 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.