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Book Review Of, Women In Post-Independence Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Book Review Of, Women In Post-Independence Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Reviews the book "Women in Post-Independence Sri Lanka," by Swarna Jayaweera
In The Wake Of The Gulf War: Assessing Family Spending Of Compensation Money In Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd
In The Wake Of The Gulf War: Assessing Family Spending Of Compensation Money In Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Between 1997 and 2000, the United Nations Compensation Commission delivered US$ 4000 apiece to roughly 87,000 Sri Lankan citizens who suffered displacement and loss of employment due to Iraq’s military actions in Kuwait during the Gulf War. Using qualitative ethnographic data, this essay examines eleven case studies of Kuwait returnees in the village of Naeaegama, in southern Sri Lanka. Like the majority of Sri Lankans caught in the Gulf War, these returnees are women from poor rural families who worked as domestic servants in Kuwait. The essay compares how the eleven households have spent compensation money and migrants’ remittances. Spending …