Political Remittances: The Post-war Transformation of the Tamil Swiss Diaspora-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Political Remittances: The Post-war Transformation of the Tamil Swiss Diaspora

Published:2023 Issue: Volume: Page:389-411
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Container-title:Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
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Author:

Alluri Rina Malagayo

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter explores how the practice of remittances has been used as a form of political activism. The case study looks at the role of remittances in the transnational Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora broadly and the Swiss-based second-generation diaspora specifically. It shows that while political remittances were used during the Sri Lankan civil war as a way to sustain and perpetuate the violence conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the role of remittances in the diaspora since the end of the war has changed and, in some ways, become depoliticized.

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-81504-2_17

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