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Between the local and the diasporic: the shifting centre of gravity in war-torn Sri Lanka's transnational politics

Cathrine Brun Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU), Trondheim, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
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Nicholas Van Hear Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Pages 61-75 | Received 02 Nov 2011, Accepted 02 Nov 2011, Published online: 22 Mar 2012

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