Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 178 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 465 g
Reihe: Asia in Transition
Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 178 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 465 g
Reihe: Asia in Transition
ISBN: 978-981-334-768-7
Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE
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Acknowledgment.-Chapter 1: Search for Home: An Introduction.-1.1Displacement, Home, and Belonging: the Sri Lankan context.- Displacement in the island: causes and outcomes.- Conceptualizing “Home”: a review.- Researching Home: Displaced persons worldwide.- Ur as the native village.- Belonging and its different forms.- Conceptualizing Attachment as a theoretical framework.- 1.2 Research Methodology.- Access to the field.- Documentation of research and methods.- Ethical considerations in the field.- 1.3 Structure of the book.- Chapter 2: Migration Research in the island: An overview of internal and international displacement.- 2.1 Historical development: civil war and migration in the island.- The war: an analysis.- 2.2 Sri Lankan Tamils and migration: an overview.- Migration causes to migration outcomes: Island-wide misery or contentment?.- Migration to Tamil Nadu: Life as a refugee in India.- Migrating to Australia: a better life?.- 2.3 Post-war scenario: Impact of the war.- Jaffna, a Tamil homeland: The IDPs at peace?.- Reconstruction and Development: role of governmental and non-governmental agencies.- 2.4 Conclusion.- Chapter 3: Shifting notions of Ur/home: narratives from Sri Lanka.- 3.1 Shifting meanings of Ur: different tales to tell.- Time, socio-economic needs and aspirations to the good life.- Father versus son: conceptualizing Ur from two different age groups.- The idea of home changed with time: Shaliny's story.- Ur as a prison: Padmini's accounts.- Ur as a source of income: regaining lost status.- 3.2 Concluding remarks.- Chapter 4: Home or Ur: Changing meanings for the refugees in Tamil Nadu, India.- 4.1 Ur in Sri Lanka and home in India: Elderly refugees’ narratives on home.- 4.2 Ur as a strange place: the changed idea of home among the others.- 4.3 Concluding remarks.- Chapter 5: Attachment, detachment or both: voices of the displaced.- 5.1 Attachment to Ur: (actual) return to get related with memories and people.- 5.2 Attachment to Ur: (actual) return to get connected with broken memories.- 5.3 Attachment to Ur: nostalgia and ambivalence.- 5.4 From attachment to detachment.- 5.5 Detachment/ non-attachment.- Attachment and its contrasting images.- 5.6 Concluding remarks.- Chapter 6: The Tamil Ur.- 6.1 Discussing Ur.- 6.2 ‘Home’ versus ‘Ur’.- 6.3 Relating the two concepts: ‘Ur’ and ‘Attachment’.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: an outlook.- 7.1 Home and Attachment: the varied meanings.- 7.3 Post-war development: ideas and visions.- 7.4 On the road to recovery: Tamil diaspora as investors.- 7.5 What the future holds: Fate of the displaced persons.- Bibliography.- Appendix.