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Stuck in transit: asylum-seeking habitus and onward migration aspirations of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers in Bangkok.
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Migration & Development . Oct2022, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p974-993. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Asylum-seekers nowadays undertake multiple journeys before reaching a country of resettlement. In Southeast Asia, several countries are playing important roles as transit locations. This paper focuses on Thailand, which serves as a major transit point for Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers who hope to move to resettlement countries through irregular channels. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations from 2018 to 2019, this paper examines the Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers' migration experiences in Bangkok, and how they plan their onward migration and utilise connection networks. Moving beyond traditional pull-push approach that standardises reasons to flee, this research uses asylum-seeking habitus as a conceptual lens to explore the interactive process between structure (economic and cultural) and asylum-seekers, and individual/communal interpretations of such structural environment that trigger onward migration aspirations of asylum-seekers in a transit country. In Bangkok, because lived experiences do not meet personal and/or familial expectations, insecurity prevails following news from others in their networks, which then triggers onward migratory disposition among Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers. Asylum-seeking habitus as a conceptual lens provides a useful approach in assisting us in understanding asylum-seekers' vision of autonomy by investigating their changing perceptions of security at different stages of the journey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *POLITICAL refugees
*ETHNOLOGY
*LAND settlement
*LOW vision
*AUTONOMY (Psychology)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21632324
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Migration & Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158478810
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2020.1851491