When migrants travel back home: Changing identities in Northern Sri Lanka after the Ceasefire of 2002

Mobilities

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-165

  Gerharz, Eva ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Identity; Locality; Proximity; Sri Lanka; Tamil

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; DIASPORA; ETHNIC GROUP; MOBILITY; PEACE PROCESS; RETURN MIGRATION;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 77949393607     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903435060     Document Type: Article

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