Niro Kandasamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 186077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niro Kandasamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niro |
| FAMILY NAME | Kandasamy |
| SIGNATURE | KANDASAMY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5904-8223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia
This special collection of International Migration Review brings together a series of articles that collectively situate Asia at the heart of contemporary discussions of irregular and forced migration. Foregrounding the scholarship of researchers working in and from Asia, we position the collection as a deliberate decentering of Global North preoccupations with border control, instead emphasizing the diverse expressions of inequity and resistance…
Powerful Stories
This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and early twenty first century Australia. By tracing the powerful stories told by the dispossessed and displa…
Refugee livelihood perspectives
Refugee livelihood studies have mostly focused on policy and international aid programming and have yet to explore refugee people’s long-term development beyond the initial resettlement period. This article examines the experiences of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil refugees resettled in Australia during the height of the multicultural agenda in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on fifty oral histories, the article argues that refugees’ struggle and tr…
Indian Ocean Internationalisms
In 1971 the Sri Lankan Prime Minister tabled the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace at the 26th United Nations General Assembly, marking the state's international debut at the global stage. This article analyses the trajectory of this highly significant initiative in the context of rapidly evolving political instabilities within Sri Lanka and across the Indian Ocean region. It argues that Sri Lanka's pursuit of peace during the 1970s and 1980s stemm…
Asylum Denial Beyond Borders
Militarised Peace and Bilateral Relations in the Indian Ocean
This article examines Indian Ocean peace engagements during the late Cold War period and their outcomes for Australia's foreign relations with Sri Lanka. Using archival materials and secondary sources, it explores Australia's growing bilateral relationship with Sri Lanka at a time of heightening tensions in the Indian Ocean. Australia had vocalised support for Indian Ocean peace initiatives such as the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of…
Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey
This thematic issue traverses refugee research that recognises the importance of networks in determining the paths that refugees undertake in their journeys to seek safety and protection. In recent years, scholars have increasingly pointed to the multifaceted nature of networks in the refugee journey. These articles demonstrate the importance of elucidating the distinct influences and factors that shape refugee networks, including the unequal pow…
Transcultural memory and identity
Eelam Tamils have a growing connection with Indian Tamils through shared language, cultural heritage, history, and cosmology, despite not having a shared geography or homeland. This paper contributes to understanding this peculiar connection by focusing on the cultural impacts of Indian Tamil films on Eelam Tamil refugees resettled in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. Building on the existing scholarship on pan-Tamil identity, memory, and film, t…
A Sense of Viidu
Home, Continuities and Resistance
Memory and war
This article explores how Tamil women in Australia reconstruct memories of Sri Lanka's war through postmemory and personal experiences. Tamil women's understandings of war are important for unravelling multiple sites of marginalization across social and political landscapes that challenge dominant perspectives of being Tamil-Australian. The article draws on sixteen in-depth interviews with Tamil women resettled in Australia as children in the 198…
Unravelling Memories of Family Separation Among Sri Lankan Tamils Resettled in Australia, 1983–2000
Using life story interviews with 10 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees resettled in Australia, this article shows how family separation in experiences of civil war and resettlement produce long-lasting and emotional memories of fear and determination. The findings explore how young Tamil people gave meaning to family when they interacted with key individuals and negotiated cultural practices in different spaces. Moreover, intergenerational family narrativ…
Peace, justice and disabled women’s advocacy
This article draws on grounded qualitative research with rural Tamil women who acquired a disability during the civil war in Sri Lanka and conceptualizes an intersectionality-peace framework. Three main themes were developed from the interviews: narratives of conflict, survival outcomes of social assistance and mobilization of cross-ethnic relationships. With the support of a local women's disability advocacy organization, Tamil women with disabi…
Implications for Practice
This article presents the findings from a small qualitative study of Refugee Settlement Service (RSS) workers under Australia’s Humanitarian Settlement Services and Settlement Grants Program. Managers and front-line workers from five Refugee Settlement Services in rural and urban New South Wales were interviewed to examine the impact of new Government funding structures and contracts on the delivery of services and supports to newly arrived refug…
Implications for Practice
This article presents the findings from a small qualitative study of Refugee Settlement Service (RSS) workers under Australia’s Humanitarian Settlement Services and Settlement Grants Program. Managers and front-line workers from five Refugee Settlement Services in rural and urban New South Wales were interviewed to examine the impact of new Government funding structures and contracts on the delivery of services and supports to newly arrived refug…
Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey
This thematic issue traverses refugee research that recognises the importance of networks in determining the paths that refugees undertake in their journeys to seek safety and protection. In recent years, scholars have increasingly pointed to the multifaceted nature of networks in the refugee journey. These articles demonstrate the importance of elucidating the distinct influences and factors that shape refugee networks, including the unequal pow…
Powerful Stories
This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and early twenty first century Australia. By tracing the powerful stories told by the dispossessed and displa…
Memory and war
This article explores how Tamil women in Australia reconstruct memories of Sri Lanka's war through postmemory and personal experiences. Tamil women's understandings of war are important for unravelling multiple sites of marginalization across social and political landscapes that challenge dominant perspectives of being Tamil-Australian. The article draws on sixteen in-depth interviews with Tamil women resettled in Australia as children in the 198…
Peace, justice and disabled women’s advocacy
This article draws on grounded qualitative research with rural Tamil women who acquired a disability during the civil war in Sri Lanka and conceptualizes an intersectionality-peace framework. Three main themes were developed from the interviews: narratives of conflict, survival outcomes of social assistance and mobilization of cross-ethnic relationships. With the support of a local women's disability advocacy organization, Tamil women with disabi…
Implications for Practice
This article presents the findings from a small qualitative study of Refugee Settlement Service (RSS) workers under Australia’s Humanitarian Settlement Services and Settlement Grants Program. Managers and front-line workers from five Refugee Settlement Services in rural and urban New South Wales were interviewed to examine the impact of new Government funding structures and contracts on the delivery of services and supports to newly arrived refug…
Unravelling Memories of Family Separation Among Sri Lankan Tamils Resettled in Australia, 1983–2000
Using life story interviews with 10 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees resettled in Australia, this article shows how family separation in experiences of civil war and resettlement produce long-lasting and emotional memories of fear and determination. The findings explore how young Tamil people gave meaning to family when they interacted with key individuals and negotiated cultural practices in different spaces. Moreover, intergenerational family narrativ…
Memory and war
This article explores how Tamil women in Australia reconstruct memories of Sri Lanka's war through postmemory and personal experiences. Tamil women's understandings of war are important for unravelling multiple sites of marginalization across social and political landscapes that challenge dominant perspectives of being Tamil-Australian. The article draws on sixteen in-depth interviews with Tamil women resettled in Australia as children in the 198…
A Sense of Viidu
Home, Continuities and Resistance
Transcultural memory and identity
Eelam Tamils have a growing connection with Indian Tamils through shared language, cultural heritage, history, and cosmology, despite not having a shared geography or homeland. This paper contributes to understanding this peculiar connection by focusing on the cultural impacts of Indian Tamil films on Eelam Tamil refugees resettled in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. Building on the existing scholarship on pan-Tamil identity, memory, and film, t…
Militarised Peace and Bilateral Relations in the Indian Ocean
This article examines Indian Ocean peace engagements during the late Cold War period and their outcomes for Australia's foreign relations with Sri Lanka. Using archival materials and secondary sources, it explores Australia's growing bilateral relationship with Sri Lanka at a time of heightening tensions in the Indian Ocean. Australia had vocalised support for Indian Ocean peace initiatives such as the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of…
Networks and Contested Identities in the Refugee Journey
This thematic issue traverses refugee research that recognises the importance of networks in determining the paths that refugees undertake in their journeys to seek safety and protection. In recent years, scholars have increasingly pointed to the multifaceted nature of networks in the refugee journey. These articles demonstrate the importance of elucidating the distinct influences and factors that shape refugee networks, including the unequal pow…
Refugee livelihood perspectives
Refugee livelihood studies have mostly focused on policy and international aid programming and have yet to explore refugee people’s long-term development beyond the initial resettlement period. This article examines the experiences of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil refugees resettled in Australia during the height of the multicultural agenda in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on fifty oral histories, the article argues that refugees’ struggle and tr…
Indian Ocean Internationalisms
In 1971 the Sri Lankan Prime Minister tabled the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace at the 26th United Nations General Assembly, marking the state's international debut at the global stage. This article analyses the trajectory of this highly significant initiative in the context of rapidly evolving political instabilities within Sri Lanka and across the Indian Ocean region. It argues that Sri Lanka's pursuit of peace during the 1970s and 1980s stemm…
Asylum Denial Beyond Borders
Powerful Stories
This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and early twenty first century Australia. By tracing the powerful stories told by the dispossessed and displa…
Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia
This special collection of International Migration Review brings together a series of articles that collectively situate Asia at the heart of contemporary discussions of irregular and forced migration. Foregrounding the scholarship of researchers working in and from Asia, we position the collection as a deliberate decentering of Global North preoccupations with border control, instead emphasizing the diverse expressions of inequity and resistance…
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Tamil (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works)