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Pain, pride, and politics : social movement activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Canada / Amarnath Amarasingam.
Van Pelt Library JV8752.7 .A43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amarnath Amarasingam, author.
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 22.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Emigration and immigration.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration.
- Canada.
- Sri Lanka--Emigration and immigration.
- Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009.
- History.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Canada.
- Social movements--Sri Lanka.
- Social movements.
- Group identity--Sri Lanka.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil movement was being crushed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and revises currently accepted analytical frameworks relating to diasporic communities. This book adds to our understanding of a particular diasporic group, while contributing to the theoretical literature in the area. Throughout, Amarasingam argues that transnational diasporic mobilization is at times determined and driven as much by internal organizational and communal developments as by events in their countries of origin, a phenomenon that has received relatively little attention in the scholarly literature. His work provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which a separatist sociopolitical movement beginning in Sri Lanka is carried forward, altered, and adapted by the diaspora and the struggles that are involved in this process. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Civil war in Sri Lanka and the birth of the Tamil diaspora
- The rise and fall of tamil militancy in Sri Lanka
- Tamil migration to Canada : the turbulent 1980s and the birth of a community
- The Tamil diaspora as a social movement
- Taking to the streets : diaspora mobilization, frame wars, and the 2009 protests
- New leadership, new organizations, and new hurdles
- Tamil youth and postwar movement identity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820348124
- 0820348120
- 9780820348131
- 0820348139
- OCLC:
- 896791510
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