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Pain, Pride, and Politics Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada / Amarnath Amarasingam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amarnath Amarasingam.
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--Sri Lanka.
- Group identity.
- Social movements--Sri Lanka.
- Social movements.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Canada.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009.
- Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka--Emigration and immigration--Canada.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--Sri Lanka.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st Edition.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780820348148
- 0820348147
- OCLC:
- 920231370
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