Other resources

Online resources

Sri Lankan Newspapers online (English language)

Other online news sources (English language)

InfoLanka (Gateway to Sri Lankan news) - http://www.infolanka.com/news/

Lanka Academic (Gateway to Sri Lankan news) - http://www.theacademic.org/

Oneworld.net (UK-based news service covering NGO-related matters) - http://www.oneworld.net/article/country/144/

Tamil Canadian (regularly updated news on Sri Lanka and the Tamil diaspora) - http://news.tamilcanadian.com

Tamil Guardian (London-based newspaper of the Tamil diaspora) - http://www.tamilguardian.com

TamilNet (news service on Tamil affairs) - http://www.tamilnet.com

Other electronic resources

ADB, ‘ADB Planning its Largest-Ever Program of Assistance for Sri Lanka’, News Release No. 122/03. http://www.adb.org/Documents/News/2003/nr2003122.asp

Ariyaratne, Rupasingha A. 'Sri Lanka: On the Edge of Ending Internal Displacement?', Forced Migration Review, vol. 17, 2003 - http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR17/fmr17.14.pdf

Arulanantham, A.T. 'Restructured Safe Havens: A Proposal for Reform of the Refugee Protection System', Human Rights Quarterly, 22(1), pp. 1-56, 2000 - http://faculty.oxy.edu/garcetti/ir499/ahilan.htm

Bertrand, Didier, 'Going Back, But Where? Forced Repatriation of Tamil Asylum Seekers from Europe', Refugee Watch, vol. 12, 2000 - http://www.safhr.org/medias/pdf/rw12/didier.pdf

Centre for Policy Alternatives, Land and Property Rights of IDPs, February 2003 - http://www.cpalanka.org/research_papers/Land_and_Property_Rights_of_IDPs.pdf

Conciliation Resources (eds), 'Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka', Accord, vol. 4, August 1998 - http://www.c-r.org/accord/sri/accord4/index.shtml

Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (Sri Lanka) Annual Report, 2002- http://www.humanitarian-srilanka.org/Pages/Annual report.pdf

Danish Refugee Council, Program Document, DRC Sri Lanka 2000-2003, Colombo, 2002 - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/AllDocWeb/B10B95B330791EC1C12569990052D57D/$file/DRC_May+2000.pdf

Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Australia), Sri Lanka Born Community Profile, Research and Statistics Unit, Canberra, 1996 - http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/publications/community_profiles/Sri_LankaNet.pdf

Global IDP Project, Sri Lanka pages - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Sri+Lanka http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/2589C11D11E6147DC1256C8A0032F502

Gomez, Mario, National Human Rights Commissions and Internally Displaced Persons Illustrated by the Sri Lankan Experience, Brookings Institution – SAIS Project On Internal Displacement Occasional Paper, July 2002 - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/0AAD3947EECCB5B3C1256C7D0058E32A/$file/National_Human_Rights_Commissions_Gomez.pdf

Hasbullah, Shahulah, Child Labour Practices Among Internally Displaced People In Sri Lanka: A Case Study Of Kalpitiya Peninsula, 1999 - http://fmo.qeh.ox.ac.uk/Repository/Oxford/1999/11/12/302838660-1999-11-12.PDF#OLV0_Entity_0001

Hyndman, Jennifer, 'Aid, Conflict and Migration: The Canada-Sri Lanka Connection', The Canadian Geographer, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 251–68, 2003 - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/rd.asp?goto=pdf&code=CAG&vol=47&page=251

Jayatilaka, Danesh, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Reflections from Sri Lanka During the Year 2001, IDP Research network, NTNU, 2003 - http://www.idp.ntnu.no/Register/UpLoadFiles/Paper Jayatilaka Danesh.pdf

Jens, Nicola et al., UNHCR's Programme for Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka, a report prepared for UNHCR, May 2002 - http://www.chs.ubc.ca/srilanka/PDFs/UNHCR programme for IDPs in Sri Lanka.pdf

OCHA, The Situation of IDPs in Sri Lanka: Report of a Mission by the Internal Displacement Unit, April 2002 - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/D4E20CEC1F9DF2FEC1256BB40034CF92/$file/IDP_Unit_Report_Sri+Lanka_April2002.pdf

Refugee Council (UK), Sri Lanka pages - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/infocentre/country/coun003.htm

Refugee Council (UK), Sri Lanka: Return to Uncertainty, July 2002 - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/downloads/rc_reports/srilanka_uncertainty.pdf

Refugee Council (UK), Sri Lanka: Internally DISPLACED persons and Safe Returns, September 2003 - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/downloads/rc_reports/srilanka_idps.pdf

Shanmugaratnam, N., Forced Migration and Changing Local Political Economies: A Study from North-Western Sri Lanka, Noragric Working Paper 22, 2000 - http://www.nlh.no/noragric/publications/workingpapers/noragric-wp-22.pdf

Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan, 'The Migration-Development Nexus: Sri Lanka Case Study', International Migration, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 283-307, 2002; a revised version with postscript is published in Nyberg Sörensen, N. and van Hear. N. (eds), The Migration-Development Nexus, Geneva: International Organization for Migration, 2003 - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1468-2435.00220/abs/

UNHCR, Internal Displacement in Sri Lanka, Colombo Branch Office, November 2000a - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/C0361792067F3374C1256992003BD168/$file/UNHCR_PAPER_Nov.pdf

––, Internally Displaced Persons in Government Welfare Centres In Sri Lanka: Workshop Results and Proposals for Action, September 2000b - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/D37D58B4D267CE27C1256A49004D6437/$file/WORKSH_UNHCR_Sept2000.pdf

––, Internally Displaced Persons in Government Welfare Centres In Sri Lanka: Workshop Results and Proposals for Action, September 2000b - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/D37D58B4D267CE27C1256A49004D6437/$file/WORKSH_UNHCR_Sept2000.pdf

––, Global Report 2002, UNHCR 2002 - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?id=3edf4fdd0&tbl=MEDIA

––, UNHCR’s programme for internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka, EPAU, UNHCR May 2002b - http://www.chs.ubc.ca/srilanka/PDFs/UNHCR programme for IDPs in Sri Lanka.pdf

––, Asylum Applications Lodged in Industrialised Countries: Levels and Trends, 2000-2002, Population Data Unit/PGDS, Division of Operational Support, UNHCR, March 2003. http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=STATISTICS&id=3e705bb24&page=statistics

––, UNHCR, Peace in Progress, 2003b. http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/insidepages/stories/UNHCR031203.asp

––, UNHCR, Peace in Progress, 2003c. http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/insidepages/RRR/UNHCR/UNHCR13.asp

United Nations Inter-Agency IDP Working Group, Durable Solutions Progress Reports, 2003 - http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/insidepages/RRR/UNHCR/UNHCRContents.asp

USAID, Displaced Children and Orphans Fund and War Victims fund activities in Sri Lanka, 1999 - http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PDABS672.pdf

Venugopal, Rajesh, The Global Dimensions of Conflict in Sri Lanka, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, Working Paper 99, 2003 - http://www2.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdf/qehwp/qehwps99.pdf

Recommended online resources

Conciliation Resources (eds), 'Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka', Accord, 4 August 1998 - http://www.c-r.org/accord/sri/accord4/index.shtml

Global IDP Project Sri Lanka Pages - http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Sri+Lanka

Refugee Council (UK), Sri Lanka pages - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/infocentre/country/coun003.htm

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Non-electronic resources and bibliography

• Daniel, E.V. and Thangaraj, Y., 'Forms, Formations and Transformations of the Tamil Refugee', in E.V. Daniel and J.C. Knudsen (eds), Mistrusting Refugees, Berkeley, CA: University of California, pp. 225-56, 1995.
• Demusz, Kerry, Listening to the Displaced Action Research in the Conflict Zones of Sri Lanka, Oxfam Working Paper Series, March 2000. Summary available at http://www.id21.org/society/S10bkd1g1.html
• Fuglerud, Øivind, 'Ambivalent Incorporation: Norwegian Policy Towards Tamil Asylum-Seekers from Sri Lanka', Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 443-61, 1997.
• ––, Life on the Outside: The Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance Nationalism, London: Pluto Press, 1999.
• Gunatilleke, G., 'The Economic, Demographic, Sociocultural and Political Setting for Emigration from Sri Lanka', International Migration, vol. 33, nos 3-4, pp. 667-97, 1995.
• Kearney, Robert N. and Miller, B.D., Internal Migration in Sri Lanka and its Social Consequences, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
• Kelegama, Saman, 'Economic Costs of Conflict in Sri Lanka', in R. Rotberg (ed), Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, pp. 71-87, 1999.
• Kendle, Andrew Bruce, 'Protecting whom? The UNHCR in Sri Lanka, 1987-1997', Round Table, vol. 348, pp. 521-41, 1998.
• McDowell, Christopher, A Tamil Asylum Diaspora: Sri Lankan Migration, Settlement and Politics in Switzerland, Providence, RI and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1996.
• Reliefweb, ‘UN refugee agency launches USD 1 billion 2004 appeal’, 5 December 2003 - http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/a2f1b41fa7105534c1256df3003dd483?OpenDocument
• Schack, B., 'Integrating Protection and Assistance Working with Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka', Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-109, 2000.
• Seneviratne, H.L. and Stavropoulou, M., 'Sri Lanka's Vicious Circle of Displacement', in Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng (eds), The Forsaken People - Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.
• Sørensen, Birgitte Refslund, Relocated Lives: Displacement and Resettlement within the Mahaweli Project, Sri Lanka, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996.
• Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan, 'The Returns of Peace in Sri Lanka: The Development Cart before the Conflict Resolution Horse?', Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 21-35, 2003.
• ––, 'Tamil Diaspora Politics', in The Encyclopedia of Diasporas, New Haven: Yale/Kluwer, pp. 493-501, 2004.
• Steen, A.-B., Varieties of the Tamil Refugee Experience in Denmark and England, Copenhagen: Minority Studies, University of Copenhagen and Danish Centre for Human Rights, 1993.
• UNHCR, Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Sri Lanka, Geneva: UNHCR, 2001a.
• ––, Asylum Applications in Industrialized Countries: 1980 -1999, Geneva: Population Data Unit/PGDS, 2001b
• Wayland, Sarah V., 'Immigration and Transnational Political Ties: Croatians and Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada', Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, 2003.
• UNHCR (2000) Internal Displacement in Sri Lanka, Colombo Branch Office, November http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/C0361792067F3374C1256992003BD168/$file/UNHCR_PAPER_Nov.pdf
• United Nations Inter-Agency IDP Working Group in Sri Lanka (2003) Durable Solutions Progress Reports http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/insidepages/RRR/UNHCR/UNHCRContents.asp

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