Tamil diaspora and the political spaces of second‐generation activism in Switzerland
Tamil diaspora and the political spaces of second‐generation activism in Switzerland
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泰米尔侨民与瑞士第二代激进主义的政治空间
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2014
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B. Korf
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Monika Hess;B. Korf
在本文中，我们研究了第二代瑞士泰米尔人激进主义政治空间的出现，这一事件是由一个重大事件造成的——2009年初斯里兰卡北部持续数十年的内战期间和之后泰米尔人所遭受的苦难。我们认为，我们可以通过两个因素来解释致力于实现泰米尔伊拉姆目标的新出现的第二代激进主义的地理分布。首先，这一代人对瑞士和泰米尔“民族”有多重归属感；其次，特定的影响政治重塑了第二代的身份，因为目睹战争的残酷和泰米尔人的苦难的痛苦与他们的“新家园”（瑞士）缺乏兴趣同时发生。这些因素结合在一起，使他们想要承认自己的泰米尔“根源”，并鼓励他们积极参与政治活动。因此，这些第二代活动家主要寻求与所在社会接触 — — 唤醒其对泰米尔人苦难的冷漠以及在国际层面采取行动的消极态度。因此，我们见证了一种新型泰米尔激进主义在瑞士的兴起，这种激进主义牢牢地扎根于东道国并与东道国紧密相连。
In this article, we study the emergence of the political spaces of activism of second-generation Swiss Tamils resulting from a critical event – the suffering of Tamils during and after the final battle in early 2009 of a civil war in northern Sri Lanka that had lasted for decades. We contend that we can explain the geographies of newly emerging second-generation activism committed to achieving Tamil Eelam through two factors. These are first, this generation’s multiple senses of belonging both to Switzerland and to the Tamil ‘nation’ and, second, the way a specific politics of affect remoulded second-generation identities because the pain of witnessing the brutality of war and suffering of Tamils occurred concurrently with a perceived lack of interest from their ‘new home’ (Switzerland). The combination of these factors made them want to acknowledge their Tamil ‘roots’ and encouraged them to become politically active. Consequently, these second-generation activists primarily sought to engage with their host society – to awaken it from its indifference to the suffering of Tamils and from its passivity in taking action on an international level. We thereby witness the emerging of a new type of Tamil activism in Switzerland, which is firmly located in and bound to the host country.