Since the 1980s, the LTTE have been agitating for a homeland for ethnic Tamils. Although the theoretical framework of the book overflows into the areas of political communication, journalism, media theories and studies, nationalism, and social psychology, it draws heavily from the theories of Ellul’s “social propaganda” and Anderson’s concept of nation as an “imagined community.” Divided into three parts, the first part explores the potential of the internet to lead to the “imagination” of the nation by the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora the second part traces the online engagement of the diaspora in the making of the homeland and the third part contrasts it with the experiences and expectations of the homeland of the second generation of migrants in Australia and the Sri Lankan refugees in India. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, are a separatist group in Sri Lanka.

While football has been played in Tamil Eelam and the Diaspora for many years, the formation of a national team was only established in 2012. Taking the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka as a given, the book explores the way in which new media has added dimensions to the issue. Over a period of more than 20 years, successive state governments of Tamil Nadu, even as they have claimed to be politically in favour of the Tamil Eelam. The Tamil Eelam Football Association (TEFA) was established as a joint venture by Tamil Youth around the world through the Global Tamil Youth League (T-League). Tiger Territory (2002) - The renewed threat of Tamil Tiger violence will add yet more strain to Sri Lankas war-weary population.Subscribe to Journeyman here. This book details the potential of computer mediated technologies, particularly the internet, in creating and nurturing political and cultural identities among the widely dispersed “conflict-generated” Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora and traces the engagement of the disapora in Australia with the online media in the struggle for a homeland. In the struggle for the anticipated state of Tamil Eelam, the socio-cultural role of women underwent, and continues to undergo, a radical transformation.1.

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