scholarly journals Writing when Being Undone by Travelling. Travel Narrative between ‘Reliance’ and Resilience

Viatica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles LOUŸS
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Left Behind

Many travels end badly: Nicolas Bouvier reported in Le Poisson-Scorpion his terrible stay in the island of Ceylon (now called Sri-Lanka) in 1955. Michel Vieuchange died at the end of his 1930 hike through the Moroccan desert, and twenty years later Raymond Maufrais knew the same fate in the Guyana jungle. Whereas these two only left behind daily logs of their travels, Nicolas Bouvier elaborated a fully literary work from his Ceylonese shipwreck. Despite their differences, these three documents introduce the issue of how one can report a traumatic experience. This paper analyses the value of writing in the light of the concepts of “reliance” and “resilience”.

Points of Departure: Comments on Religious Pilgrimage in Sri Lanka and Japan

1979 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
William LaFleur
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Victor Turner ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The One ◽  
At Home

AbstractThe anthropologist Victor Turner has proposed a new theory of religious pilgrimage, holding that people on pilgrimage have entered into a social modality that contrasts sharply with the one they ordinarily experience at home; roles, ranks, and social hierarchy have all been left behind, and what Turner calls communitas has come into being en route. Studies in Japanese by Eiki Hoshino confirm the cross-cultural applicability of Turner's theory, and show that it most adequately explains an ancient and famous pilgrimage tradition in Japan, that to the eighty-eight sites on Shikoku. It especially helps us account for the unusual tensions between pilgrims and government during the Tokugawa era. These materials and analyses are used, then, to suggest that in his study of the Kataragama pilgrimage, Bryan Pfaffenberger has misinterpreted Turner's theory and has overlooked ways in which it does, in fact, explain the materials from Sri Lanka.

Impact of Economic Labour Migration: A Qualitative Exploration of Left-Behind Family Member Perspectives in Sri Lanka

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 885-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chesmal Siriwardhana ◽  
Kolitha Wickramage ◽  
Kaushalya Jayaweera ◽  
Anushka Adikari ◽  
Sulochana Weerawarna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Does individual and collective remembrance of past violence impede or foster reconciliation? From Argentina to Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (910) ◽  
pp. 97-124
Author(s):  
Jill Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

AbstractWhile the dominant human rights discourse on transitional justice constitutes a mix of reinforcing aims that seek to “make peace with” a violent past, this article complicates this notion by exploring how affective memories can prevent individuals from envisioning a future for themselves in which their individual and their nation's past is safely left behind. In the context of ongoing debates over whether to remember or forget a country's traumatic past, the article will show how affective memories of violence and disappearance prevail and disrupt the reconciliation paradigm, and need to be taken into account in transitional justice processes.

scholarly journals Common mental disorders among adult members of ‘left-behind’ international migrant worker families in Sri Lanka

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chesmal Siriwardhana ◽  
Kolitha Wickramage ◽  
Sisira Siribaddana ◽  
Puwalani Vidanapathirana ◽  
Buddhini Jayasekara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Common Mental Disorders ◽  
Left Behind

scholarly journals «И несем в чужие страны / чувство русское тоски»: образ России в мемуарах Александра Вертинского

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (XXII) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Nel Bielniak
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

A well-known Russian bard, Alexander Vertinsky, like many other representatives of the first wave of Russian emigration, left behind his unfinished memoirs in which he writes of over two decades of homeless wandering around the world (1920-1943). During that time he stayed, among others, in many European countries, the USA and China. And it was in Shanghai in the early 1940s that the singer began to write down his reminiscences. After returning to his homeland, Vertinsky continued his literary work, which undoubtedly left its mark on the content of memoirs. Nevertheless, the leitmotif of Vertinsky’s memoirs is both the image of old Russia scented with nostalgic feelings, and of Russian emigrants embodying his homeland.

scholarly journals Remittances from International Labour Migrants and the Standard of Living of the Left Behind Households in Sri Lanka

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Siriwardhane ◽  
S. Amaratunge ◽  
I. De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Propensity Score ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Income Quintile ◽  
Matching Method ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Average Treatment Effects

This study aims to examine the effect of remittances on the standard of living of the remittance receiving households in Sri Lanka. Survey data were analyzed using thematic analysis and stratified matching method in propensity score matching. It was found that, a large majority of labour migrants remit money to their households left behind. However, the volume of remittances varies with the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the labour migrants and their households. Furthermore, it was found that remittance receiving households enjoy income from diversified sources. Average treatment effects estimated through stratified matching analysis reveal that remittance receivers enjoy a higher level of income and higher standard of living compared to their non-remittance receiving counterparts. Improvement of the income by the remittances varies with the income quintile of the households.KeywordsMigration, Propensity Score Matching, Remittances, Sri Lanka

scholarly journals A LITERATURE REVIEW ON MATERNAL MIGRATION: CASES OF CHINA, SRI LANKA, GUATEMALA, PHILIPPINES, AND POLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Jeany Rose Teguihanon ◽  
Ginbert Permejo Cuaton
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Present Complex ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Desk Research

The increasing and enhanced migration over borders amplified the interdependency between countries making it as one of globalization’s greatest indicator. The study of migration and its patterns involves analyzing different forces at play, in particular, the causes and impacts on the sending and receiving countries. Anchored on a qualitative research design, the data from secondary sources were gathered through desk research, and organized and analyzed using thematic analysis. This study takes an in-depth discussion and analysis of the degree and impacts of maternal labor migration, specifically in the countries of China, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Philippines and Poland. Findings demonstrate that the increase of ‘feminization’ of labor emigration has brought about concerns over the ‘crisis of care' when women and mothers leave. The focus on the impact of mother’s migration is in relation to the perception that although maternal migration has positive effects, i.e. improved livelihood income due to remittances, it could also present complex negative impacts to the welfare of families and children left behind.

The Care Drain and its Effects on the Families Left Behind: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devoushi Cooray
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Deficit

As growing numbers of women from the global South leave behind their own families to take up domestic work in wealthier countries, this shift in care and emotional resources has created a “care drain” in many migrant-exporting nations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the families of migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka, this paper examines how the care deficit caused by low-skilled female migration affects family structures, household relations, and the psychosocial wellbeing of migrants’ families. Highlighting the tension between the economic benefits and social costs of migration, the overall findings of this study suggest that despite economic benefits, low-skilled female migration often works to the social and emotional detriment of the families left behind.

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