Diaspora Involvement in Insurgencies: Insights From the Khalistan and Tamil Eelam Movements

Fair, C. Christine

doi:10.1080/13537110590927845

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“…Owing to the vicissitudes of apartheid diplomatic isolation, resistance struggles and Nehruvian-Gandhian diaspora policies, South African Indian diaspora associations do not have an overtly political function in relation to the Indian state, unlike Indian diaspora associations found in other contexts (e.g. Fair, 2005).…”

Section: Indian Diaspora Policy-making Trajectoriesmentioning

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Articulating an Indian diaspora in South Africa: The Consulate General of India, diaspora associations and practices of collaboration

Dickinson

2015

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a b s t r a c tEngagements between sending states and their diasporas have come under increasing critical scrutiny. Whilst political geographers have driven critical analysis of national level policies, debates have largely overlooked the broader range of actors, transactions and practices involved in implementing national policies in a geohistorically diverse array of diasporic contexts and settings. Over the last decade, the Indian government has invested significant resources in overseas diplomatic missions, consulates and high commissions to administer its diaspora outreach strategies. This paper examines the role of the Consulate General of India (CGI) in Durban, South Africa, focusing in particular on the networks of agents, associations, groups and political actors involved in collaborating with the CGI Durban in diaspora outreach practices. This paper draws on two periods of fieldwork in Durban between 2004 and 2005 and was supplemented by ongoing visual and textual analysis of news articles, promotional material, reports and websites. Using the concept of articulation, the paper highlights the discursive and performative practices involved in bringing together the agendas of the GOI with those of South African Indian diaspora associations through the outreach practices of the CGI in Durban. It argues that articulatory practices are essential to resolving some of the subjective and embodied dilemmas and contestations of belonging inherent in South African Indians' participation in diaspora outreach initiatives. Investigating how articulation contributes to drawing diverse and even competing agendas together makes room for further understanding the ways in which diaspora outreach practices can travel across a wide network, and the diverse agencies that can become catalysed in the process.

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Section: Indian Diaspora Policy-making Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Articulating an Indian diaspora in South Africa: The Consulate General of India, diaspora associations and practices of collaboration

Dickinson

2015

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“…The most important and probably the main trigger in the 26 year long ethnic conflict were the riots which occurred in July 1983. At that point, the response of Sinhalese mobs to the death of 13 Sri Lankan soldiers in conflict with LTTE was the destruction and burning of Tamil homes and businesses, as well as killings that ended with hundreds of dead Tamils (Fair, 2005). Furthermore, there are many published reports that members of the Sri Lankan security forces actively participated in these atrocities and killings.…”

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Sri Lanka: Physical Reconstruction and Economic Development as Conflict Prevention Factors

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2013

Croatian International Relations Review

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“…Tamil diaspora supported the LTTE 53 , the Kurdish diaspora helps the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) 54 , and the Lebanese communities raise funds for Hezbollah. 55 All of these are significant examples of this linkage.…”

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Trendsetters, Trend Followers, and Individual Players: Obtaining Global Counterterror Actor Types from Proscribed Terror Lists

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Curtis

2014

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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This article seeks to conceptualize global counter-terror actor types by examining the designated terrorist organisations lists of six countries; the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Russia and China. It is argued that these countries should be placed into one of three distinct categories: Trendsetters, Trend Followers and Individual Players. Being able to classify countries according to these categories is important for global policy makers. It raises awareness of the differences between countries, and emphasises that 'one-fits-all' policies are inappropriate and have little chance of achieving global endorsement.

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Diaspora Involvement in Insurgencies: Insights From the Khalistan and Tamil Eelam Movements

Cited by 97 publications

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Articulating an Indian diaspora in South Africa: The Consulate General of India, diaspora associations and practices of collaboration

Articulating an Indian diaspora in South Africa: The Consulate General of India, diaspora associations and practices of collaboration

Sri Lanka: Physical Reconstruction and Economic Development as Conflict Prevention Factors

Trendsetters, Trend Followers, and Individual Players: Obtaining Global Counterterror Actor Types from Proscribed Terror Lists

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