Displacement Among Sri Lankan Tamil Migrants
Diotima Chattoraj - Hardback
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Diotima Chattoraj is currently working as a research assistant with the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS, in collaboration with NTU and SMU. From September 2018 until August 2020, she worked at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) in Universiti Brunei Darussalam as a researcher, where she was involved in several research projects on skill-mobility in Asia, the Rohingyas, security and migration, gender and migration, the Uyghurs and their homelands, and also on the recent topic of Covid-19 and migration. She completed her PhD at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where she researched the different kinds of attachments that displaced Sri Lankan Tamils have to their places of origin in the post-war era. Her research interests include migration, development, ethnicity, international relations, and boundary-making. Her academic background is supported by a strong publication record including several articles, book chapters and book reviews in refereed, Scopus-indexed journals. She is an assistant editor for South Asia Research (Sage) and serves as a peer reviewer for a number of refereed journals. She has volunteered with several non-profit organizations including UNICEF in the US, UNWOMEN Singapore, Here With You Migrants Helpline, and the Singapore Red Cross Society.