Connecting Homeland and Borders Using Mobile Telephony: Exploring the State of Tamil Refugees in Indian Camps-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Connecting Homeland and Borders Using Mobile Telephony: Exploring the State of Tamil Refugees in Indian Camps

Published:2017-02-01 Issue:1 Volume:7 Page:86-110
ISSN:2381-5892
Container-title:Journal of Information Policy
language:en
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Author:

Sreenivasan Akshaya¹,Bien-Aimé Steve²,Connolly-Ahern Colleen³

Affiliation:

1. Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

2. Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University

3. Associate Professor of Communications, College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University; Senior Research Fellow, Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication, Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

Abstract This article attempts to explain how mobile phones influence how Sri Lankan Tamil refugees perceive cultural, psychological, and physical borders. Grounded in the information and communications technology (ICT) literature and diaspora communications, the lead author conducted twelve in-depth interviews with Mandapam camp residents in Tamilnadu, India, during Summer 2013. Results indicate that while camp refugees considered Sri Lanka their “motherland,” fear of government surveillance coupled with skepticism regarding the peace process impedes their return, even though official hostilities have ceased. However, mobile communications allow them to create a virtual community, which is important because camp life essentially separates them from both India and Sri Lanka.

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Subject

Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Communication,Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Communication

Link

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/information-policy/article-pdf/7/1/86/1260114/jinfopoli_7_1_86.pdf

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