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Life on the Outside (Paperback)
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Life on the Outside (Paperback)
Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society
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This study of the Tamil diaspora is one of the first full
ethnographic studies of a postcolonial migrant community, and a
major contribution to the study of migration, globalisation,
identity politics and 'long distance' nationalism from an
anthropological perspective. Fuglerud's study traces the history of
Tamil migration, from the arrival of the economic migrants of the
1960s to the 'asylum seekers' of the mid 1980s onwards. He draws
unnerving parallels between the status of the Tamil community in
Sri Lanka, as a beleaguered and persecuted minority waging a war of
liberation, and as a displaced, marginalised and excluded refugee
community. Fuglerud argues that, in the process of displacement,
particular aspects of Tamil culture - marriage, dowry, chastity and
ritual - acquire a heightened significance. He examines the
contradictions and inconsistencies which characterise the Tamil
refugee communities, and the success of revolutionary Tamil
nationalism in exile, highlighting the transnational nature of
identity politics.
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