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WP355 Communication challenges in the practice of diaspora among Sri Lankan Tamils
2026
This paper builds on Brubaker’s (2005) conception of diaspora as practice and describes how a legacy of conflict feeds into basic communicative processes in the formation of diasporic spaces and identities within the Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) …
Key words: channels of communication, diaspora, diaspora practice, interactional sociolinguistics, Sri Lankan Tamils
WP348 Living with the chronotope of war: Sri Lankan Tamil diasporans in London
2025
‘Are chronotopes helpful’, asked Jan Blommaert. This chapter answers affirmatively, but uses the concept differently from Blommaert, centring its analysis on the difficulties that Sri Lankan Tamils in London experience in talking about the Sri …
Key words: chronotope, context, migration, narrative, refugees, Sri Lankan Tamils