Lives in exile? Perspectives on the resettlements of Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu, India

Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

World Development, 2024, vol. 180, issue C

Abstract: This article looks at subjectivities and regimes of homing from a position of liminality and questions the placements dynamics displayed by Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, India. Based on long-term and longitudinal fieldwork conducted in Keezhputhupattu refugee camp near Pondicherry between 2010 and 2023, this study analyses the experience of the refugees, which combines a “know-how” that they have developed due to a life in exile since 1983, which is linked, among other things, to a sometimes well-developed diasporic network; and a restrictive agency that has been granted to them by the Indian and Tamil Nadu authorities, which places them in a regime that is intended to be exceptional. The results of the study are significant and show how families spanning three generations may reproduce their new normalcy and negotiate their lives.

Keywords: Displacement; Migration; Citizenship; Sri Lankan refugees; India; Tamil Nadu (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106629

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