ISBN:
9789811681318
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XV, 180 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
second edition
Serie:
Asia in Transition volume 11
Serie:
Asia in Transition
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Schlagwort(e):
Diaspora
;
Binnenflüchtling
;
Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka
;
Tamilen
;
Heimatgefühl
;
Migration
;
Flüchtling
;
Vertriebener
;
Sri Lanka
;
Ethnology
;
Economic development
;
Sri Lanka
;
Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka
;
Tamilen
;
Binnenflüchtling
;
Flüchtling
;
Migration
;
Diaspora
;
Sri Lanka
;
Tamilen
;
Vertriebener
;
Flüchtling
;
Diaspora
;
Heimatgefühl
Kurzfassung:
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? --
Kurzfassung:
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 --
Kurzfassung:
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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