Other resources
Online resources
Sri Lankan Newspapers online (English language)
- Daily Mirror - http://www.dailymirror.lk/
- Daily News - http://www.dailynews.lk/
- The Island - http://www.island.lk/
- Sunday Leader - http://www.thesundayleader.lk
- Sunday Observer - http://www.sundayobserver.lk/
- Sunday Times - http://www.sundaytimes.lk/
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://repository.forcedmigration.org/show_metadata.jsp?pid=fmo:1958
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
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 RefugeesMistrusting Refugees, Berkeley, CA: University of California, pp. 225-56, 1995.
- Demusz, Kerry,Listening to the Displaced Action Research in the Conflict Zones of Sri LankaListening 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 StudiesJournal of Refugee Studies, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 443-61, 1997.
- ––,Life on the Outside: The Tamil Diaspora and Long-Distance NationalismLife 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 MigrationInternational 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 ConsequencesInternal 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 ReconciliationCreating 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 TableRound Table, vol. 348, pp. 521-41, 1998.
- McDowell, Christopher,A Tamil Asylum Diaspora: Sri Lankan Migration, Settlement and Politics in SwitzerlandA 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 QuarterlyRefugee 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 DisplacedThe 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 LankaRelocated 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 & DevelopmentJournal of Peacebuilding & Development, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 21-35, 2003.
- ––, 'Tamil Diaspora Politics', inThe Encyclopedia of DiasporasThe Encyclopedia of Diasporas, New Haven: Yale/Kluwer, pp. 493-501, 2004.
- Steen, A.-B.,Varieties of the Tamil Refugee Experience in Denmark and EnglandVarieties 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 LankaBackground Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Sri Lanka, Geneva: UNHCR, 2001a.
- ––,Asylum Applications in Industrialized Countries: 1980 -1999Asylum 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
Canadian Ethnic Studies , Vol. XXXV, No. 2, 2003. - UNHCR (2000)Internal Displacement in Sri LankaInternal 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 ReportsDurable Solutions Progress Reports http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/insidepages/RRR/UNHCR/UNHCRContents.asp
