Workbook
For Sri Lankan Tamil Families in the Diaspora
War, Migration, and the Identity Your Children Inherit
The war ended. The identity questions didn't. This workbook is for what comes next.
Adults from Sri Lankan Tamil families living in the diaspora — in Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia, France, and elsewhere — including those who fled during the civil war and those born in diaspora, who want to understand and document what Sri Lankan Tamil identity means for their family across the divide of war and distance.
The Name It First Experience
Sri Lankan Tamil families in the diaspora carry one of the most specific identities in the South Asian community: shaped by a 26-year civil war, a traumatic defeat, and the experience of building life far from Jaffna and the north. This workbook examines what Sri Lankan Tamil families actually live with in diaspora — the trauma that was never fully processed, the Tamil cultural practices maintained in living rooms in Toronto and London, the identity of children who grew up knowing the war only as a story, and what it means to be Tamil in a world that often conflates you with India. Document your family's story.
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Sample questions
- What does Sri Lankan Tamil identity mean to your family — and what do you carry from the war that still needs to be named?
- What does your family carry from Tamil culture — in language, in food, in how you care for each other — that you most want to protect?
- What do you want the next generation to know about who they are and where your family came from?
Research basis
Grounded in Brah (1996) diaspora cartographies, Herman (1992) trauma and identity, Daniel and Thangaraj (1995) scholarship on Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora identity, and Fuglerud (1999) research on Tamil migration and political identity in Europe.
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