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Experiences of Sri Lankan Tamils Displaced to Colombo: Three Narratives
Published 2018-04-01“…This paper focuses on the experiences, challenges and aspirations of three middle-aged Sri Lankan Tamil Displaced persons in Colombo who are reluctant to return to their places of origin in the northern provinces of Sri Lanka due to several personal and professional reasons. …”
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Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus and other Tamis in the Montréal diaspora
Published 2018-10-01“…Focusing on the largest group, the Sri Lankan Tamil Saivite Hindus, this paper explores the relationships of this group with other Tamils living in Montréal, namely Tamil Catholics and Pentecostal Christians, as well as with Tamil Hindus of Indian origin. …”
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Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India: Conceptual Framework of Repatriation Success
Published 2016-11-01“…Repatriation to Sri Lanka has become a primary challenge to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Indian refugee camps, and a matter of significant public discussion in India and Sri Lanka. …”
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“This Group Is My Country”: Sri Lankan Tamil Women’s Narratives of Isolation and Connectedness in Australia
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Breathing new life into dance traditions: kūttu and bharata nāṭyam among Sri Lankan Tamils
Published 2020-10-01“…Kūttu and bharata nāṭyam stand out as the two main dance styles in use among Sri Lankan Tamils. Over the last decades, attempts have been made by many choreographers to yield a synthesis of the styles, with the twofold aim of reviving traditional repertoires and reassessing the value of the dance forms, previously separated along caste lines. …”
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Knowing when someone is resilient: Development and validation of a measure of adaptive functioning among war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils
Published 2021-12-01“…This scale—developed using data from 622 qualitative interviews of war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils—was administered to three samples of war survivors (N = 539) and was shown to have a three-factor structure that overlapped with domains identified through coding of the qualitative data: religious faith, community respect, and family responsibility. …”
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Sri Lankan Conflict and Tamil Nadu: Terror, Bare Life and Necropolitics
Published 2014-07-01“…The long and violent Sri Lankan Tamil conflict had its most severe impact on its closest neighbour Tamil Nadu, as exemplified by the violent response of the LTTE to the atrocities of the Indian Peace Keeping Force by the assassination of the ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Chennai. …”
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Lad guden komme til os: Tempelprocessioner hos srilankansk-tamilske hinduer i Danmark
Published 2017-06-01“… English abstract: Through a presentation and analysis of Ter, a wagon procession which is part of a ten-day temple anniversary festival held once a year among Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus in Denmark, I aim to show the importance and the meaning of procession among Hindus in diaspora. …”
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Post-Disaster Mental Distress Relief: Health Promotion and Knowledge Exchange in Partnership with a Refugee Diaspora Community
Published 2008-04-01“…After the 2004 Asian tsunami, a group of concerned scientists, physicians, and community service providers united to form a Local Distress Relief Network (LDRN) to provide information, referral, and care to affected members of the large Sri Lankan Tamil community in Toronto. The LDRN organized a workshop that brought together community-based organizations and international and local experts in mental health and disaster response to review existing knowledge on disaster response and to share community knowledge and experience. …”
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Ischemic stroke following a wasp sting – a rare complication: a case report
Published 2018-10-01“…Case presentation A 69-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man presented to our hospital with focal neurological deficit following multiple wasp stings; the deficit was confirmed to be an acute infarction on magnetic resonance imaging scan. …”
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Narratives of Sri Lankan Displaced Tamils Living in Welfare Centres in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Published 2018-12-01“…This article addresses the kind of attachment that the Sri Lankan Tamil IDPs, refugeed in the welfare centers of Jaffna, have to their Ur/homes in the post-war era. …”
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Mondor’s disease – a rare cause of chest pain: a case report
Published 2018-01-01“…Case presentation Here we report a case of a 37-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil woman who presented with chest pain and was clinically diagnosed as having Mondor’s disease after a physical examination, which was confirmed with demonstration of thrombophlebitis by ultrasound scan imaging. …”
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Acute poisoning with acetamiprid: a case report
Published 2021-07-01“…Case presentation We describe a case of acute poisoning with an acetamiprid in a middle-aged Sri Lankan Tamil farmer for suicidal purposes following family conflicts with his wife. …”
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Multiple aplasia cutis congenita type V and fetus papyraceous: a case report and review of the literature
Published 2021-03-01“…Case presentation A 13-day-old newborn Sri Lankan Tamil girl was referred to the dermatologic clinic with multiple skin defects at birth. …”
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Classic polyarteritis nodosa associated with hepatitis C virus infection: a case report
Published 2012-09-01“…</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>A 34-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man presented to our facility with a two-week history of slow-resolving pneumonia of the right mid and lower zones. …”
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