Mohamed Faslan

University of Colombo · Department of Political Science and Public Policy

Every southwest monsoon, men and women from the west coast fishing villages migrate to east coast villages, leaving their homes and their children and their school-age children behind with kin. This monograph is an exploration of the motivations and aspirations that drive an internal process of seasonal fisheries migration. It focusses on the gende...

Households in fishing communities on the west and east coasts of Sri Lanka engage in internal seasonal migration (coastal and coast to coast) to pursue small-scale fishing and fisheries-based livelihoods. The chapter focuses on the material, relational, and subjective factors underlying the households’ gendered decision-making, using a social well-...

The depletion of coastal fish resources and a marked increase in fishing households on the east coast of Sri Lanka have negatively affected west coast fishing communities’ seasonal migration to fish off the northeast and east coasts during the southwest monsoon in Asia. East coast communities whose livelihoods were destroyed by civil war claim the...

The study draws from qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with women and men from the districts of Mannar, Jaffna, Ampara, and Matara in Sri Lanka and unpacks the intersecting domains of contestation among Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists including the agents and enabling conditions that fuel conflict. It adopts a localised...

Ethno-religious violence has a long history in Sri Lanka dating far back as 1883. The Muslims of Sri Lanka have been victims of sporadic attacks by the Sinhalese and Tamil majorities since the early 1900s with the most recent attack being in 2014. While the recent turn towards violence against the Muslim community in Sri Lanka can be attributed to...