Forced Migration of the Tamils

Maitrayee Guha
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Maitrayee Guha: Assistant Professor, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College, Kolkata.

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2015, vol. 71, issue 1, 53-66

Abstract: International relations and domestic politics are interlinked. States do not exist in a vacuum. States are unable to make policies without keeping in mind the intricacies of the environment in which they exist. The influence of domestic policy on international relations and vice versa has become even more crucial in the twenty-first century. Relations between neighbouring states have become so complicated with increasing political and economic globalisation that each state regards international influences to be having a lot of significance for its domestic policies. It is in this context that the present article aims to understand the impact of forced migration of a certain population within South Asia on Indian geopolitics. Providing a historical perspective as well as primary observation of residents in a refugee camp, this article will show how a state on the southern border of the country (Tamil Nadu), which shares ethnic commonality with a neighbour (Sri Lanka), has made it clear that neglect of its population in the former will only make relations between the two South Asian countries sour. This forces the Indian federation to rethink about the definition of a semi-federal and semi-unitary system that exists in the country.

Keywords: Forced migration; geopolitics; foreign policy; states; centre; Sri Lankan Tamils (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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