The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka

Gerharz, Eva

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“…Over time, the attention to 'diaspora engagement' with post-war development issues in Sri Lanka has increased. This is in step with the growing general awareness of the envisaged role of diaspora organizations in developmental interventions in their countries of origin (Gerharz, 2014). However, in terms of the scale of operation and duration of projects, this role is contingent on the shifting political perspectives of succeeding governments towards these 'private' and 'external' interventions (Brun & van Hear, 2012).…”

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Imagining, Conceiving and Implementing Development: Diaspora Philanthropic Interventions in Post-War Sri Lanka

Munas

Smith

2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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In the field of migration and development, the role of diasporas has been examined critically because of the political consequences and culturally informed moral norms often attached to their engagement with their country of origin. These shape the nature of their interactions. Drawing on two case studies of diaspora philanthropic interventions in post-war Sri Lanka, this article applies a post-development framework to study the complexities of transnationalism. These cases highlight the complex and uneven relationships between local and diaspora actors, and in doing so illustrate the various kinds of diaspora organizations and their ‘constituencies’. The cases also show that diasporas can have a facilitative effect on local development, but that the process of change is rife with institutional complexities, competing agendas and shifting priorities over time. The article speaks to the need to conceive development as a process, even more so in a post-war context. This requires much time to understand the exact impact of diaspora interventions in any local situation.

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Imagining, Conceiving and Implementing Development: Diaspora Philanthropic Interventions in Post-War Sri Lanka

Munas

Smith

2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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“…The lack of future perspectives and opportunities has become a decisive consideration for many young people in Jaffna, who tend to opt for leaving the peninsula to move to either Colombo or go abroad, where they hope to have better opportunities. The establishment and maintenance of transnational social spaces have become the norm in Jaffna, and migration serves as a strategy to reproduce social status within the locality, through individual and collective efforts (Gerharz, 2014).…”

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Strangers at home: narratives of northern Muslim returnees in post-war Sri Lanka

Chattoraj

Gerharz

2019

Sri Lanka J. Soc. Sci.

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This article focuses on the experiences, aspirations and challenges of Sri Lankan Muslim returnees to northern part of Sri Lanka in Jaffna and analyses their strategies to cope with the ambivalent situation thereafter. The empirical point of departure is drawn from the stories of three Muslim returnees in Jaffna who returned from different parts of Sri Lanka. The article finds that the Muslim returnees conceptualise home as a place where they can have a "better future" than the displaced location where they stayed for so long. The authors argue that this unveils the different kinds of attachment they have to their homes through memories, emotions and material and immaterial properties. There exists feelings of alienation and detachment from their homes among some. Furthermore, their aspirations of a good life seem to be decaying in their homes after their return.

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“…Highly skilled returnees in Trinidad and Tobago were being involved in NGO and professional activities back home due to altruism and fulfilment of personal vocation: personal gains and achievement (Conway et al, 2012). In some other contexts, migrants' involvement was due to feelings of moral obligation that they felt towards their schools and the education they received in the countries of origin (Gerharz, 2014). Home town associations (HTAs) in Mexico and Dominican Republic (Itzigsohn, 2008;Alarcón, 2002) run development activities and projects in communities of origin with the purpose to develop economically and socially their origin communities.…”

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“…Home town associations (HTAs) in Mexico and Dominican Republic (Itzigsohn, 2008;Alarcón, 2002) run development activities and projects in communities of origin with the purpose to develop economically and socially their origin communities. The same is with refugees and migrants involved into reconstruction and development efforts in post-conflict contexts (Al-Ali et al, 2001;Gerharz, 2014). In the case of Eritreans in Europe, they were asked to contribute with two per cent of their monthly income and additional one-off payments.…”

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Migrants’ remittances: channelling globalization

Anghel

Piracha

Randazzo

2015

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration

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Migrants' Remittances: Channelling Globalization * In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization and growth in the developing world. By transferring home large amounts of money, information, ideas and practices, migrants and migrant organizations are often seen as able to produce significant changes in countries and localities of origin. Focusing on cases from former socialist countries and around the world, this paper discusses the main debates surrounding the effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses the notion of social remittances, namely the transfers of ideas, practices and norms between societies of origin and destination. It highlights the ideas and practices migrants transfer home, the types of social norms it generates, and the extent to which migration produces transformations in countries of origin.

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The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka

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Imagining, Conceiving and Implementing Development: Diaspora Philanthropic Interventions in Post-War Sri Lanka

Imagining, Conceiving and Implementing Development: Diaspora Philanthropic Interventions in Post-War Sri Lanka

Strangers at home: narratives of northern Muslim returnees in post-war Sri Lanka

Migrants’ remittances: channelling globalization

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