Repatriation of Sri Lankan Refugees from South India in the Post-War Era

Abstract

During the course of the protracted war in Sri Lanka, several displaced victims of the war entered as refugees and sought asylum in Tamil Nadu state in South India. The civil war ended in 2009 in Sri Lanka, following which peacebuilding and reconstruction works were started by the government. In the process of building peace in the post-war context, repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees was considered a primary task among other resettlement works required to restore normalcy to civilian life in the former war zones. The Government of Sri Lanka formally invited the refugees to return to their motherland and provided some assistance towards their passage. This paper looks at the progress of the repatriation process of Sri Lankan refugees from Tamil Nadu state in the post-war period. To address this task this paper uses primary and secondary data as appropriate.