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“Doing-ethnicity” – Tamil educational organizations as socio-cultural and political actors
Thusinta Somalingamsubject
PoliticsStandardizationTamilPolitical scienceEthnic grouplanguageGender studiesOrganizational structureSpace (commercial competition)Social scienceEducation developmentlanguage.human_languageDiasporadescription
The article focuses on Tamil schools abroad that are part of the Tamil Education Development Council (TEDC), and on their construction of ethno-national belongings. By presenting the TEDC geographical, contextual and organizational structures, the article explains how education organizations form a transnational space where the organizations reinforce and recreate ethno-national orientations and belongings, which in turn reconstructs the Tamil diaspora itself through processes of standardization and homogenization.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-04 | Transnational Social Review |