For research that will trace the articulations of the Ilangai Tamil - Sri Lankan Tamil refugee - community about their homeland through their cultural practices. It will study how the community in its interactions with the Indian nation-state and Tamil Nadu state machinery uses performative acts to negotiate their roles and identities in their present liminal status. The outcome of this project will be a series of essays. The Grantee’s deliverables to IFA with the final reports will be the essays and audiovisual documentation and interviews from two refugee camps in Tamil Nadu. Grant funds will pay for honorarium, professional fees, travel, food and living costs, equipment rental, consumables and an accountant’s fee.
