Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands

A third of the estimated 600,000 IDPs in Sri Lanka live in areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Displaced people within these so-called ‘un-cleared’ or ‘liberated areas’ (termsused by the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE respectively) are at especial risk. Their situatio...

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Main Authors: Danesh Jayatilaka, Robert Muggah
Format: Article
Language:Arabic
Published: University of Oxford 2004-05-01
Series:Forced Migration Review
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Online Access:http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR20/FMR2019.pdf
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spellingShingle Danesh Jayatilaka
Robert Muggah
Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands
Forced Migration Review
forced migration
refugee
asylum
displacement
IDPs
Sri Lanka
title Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands
title_full Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands
title_fullStr Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands
title_full_unstemmed Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands
title_short Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka’s borderlands
title_sort where there is no information idp vulnerability assessments in sri lanka s borderlands
topic forced migration
refugee
asylum
displacement
IDPs
Sri Lanka
url http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/FMR20/FMR2019.pdf
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