A Flourishing Bibliographical Tree: Tamil Migration, Asylum-Seekers and Australia

 Alex Kuhendrarajah of Merak notoriety –courtesy of Australian  courtesy of aus.com.au

NOTE that I am constantly augmenting this listing and adding new items so readers would do well to come back to the fresher editions: Web Editor.

Allard, Tom 2009 “Asylum seekers stage snap hunger strike,” 16 October 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/world/asylum-seekers-stage-snap-hunger-strike-20091015-gz93.html

Allard, Tom 2010 “Tamils’ spokesman Alex jumps ship,” SMH, 2 March 2010, http://www.smh.com.au/world/tamils-spokesman-alex-jumps-ship-20100301-pdju.html.

Amunugama, Sarath [quoted in news item] 2011 foreign remittances the lifeline of Sri Lanka’s economy,” Sunday Observer, 30 January 2011, http://thuppahis.com/2011/01/30/foreign-remittances-the-lifeline-of-sri-lankas-economy-says-sarath-amunugama/

BBC 2012 “[Lost at Sea! Some Missing Tamils]” 23 April 2012, reprint in http://thuppahis.com/2012/04/23/lost-at-sea-some-missing-tamils/

Bell, Stewart 2011 [“Sun Sea– one of its journalist Tamil migrants granted entry into Canada,”] 5 February 2011, http://thuppahis.com/2011/02/05/sun-sea-one-of-its-journalist-tamil-migrants-granted-entry-into-canada/.

Black, Sophie 2009 “Meet Alex and Brindha: a media savvy bunch of boat people,”http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/meet-alex-and-brindha-a-media-savvy-bunch-of-boat-people/.

Bolt, Andrew 2009 “How the Greens deceive on boat people,” 2 November 2009, http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hew_the_greens_deceive_on_boat_people.

Bolt, Andrew 2009 “It’s Rudd’s fatal shore,” Herald Sun, 6 November 2009, http://heraldsun.com.au/opinion/it’s-rudd’s-fatal-shore/story-e6frfhgf-1225794867198

Brown, Bernardo 2012 “Bernardo Brown’s brief note on migration networks in the Negombo region, 1980s-2012,” http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/25/bernardo-browns-brief-note-on-migration-networks-in-the-negombo-region-1980s-2012/.

Burnside, Julian “Australian leader Abbott ignorant on boat arrivals,” The Age, 9 April 2010, http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/abbott-ignorant-on-boat-arrivals-20100408-ruyl.html.

Callick, Rowan 2010 “Sri Lanka urges hard line on Tamil asylum-seekers,” Australian, 18 Oct. 2010.

Callick, Rowan 2010 “Brothers who tamed the Tigers,” Australian A Plus, 18 Oct. 2010.

Callick, Rowan 2010 “Peace in balance, as clan rules supreme,” Australian, 19 Oct. 2010.

Canadian Press, The 2010 “Some Tamil boat people already rejected in UK,” http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20101022/tamil-migrants-rejected-in-uk-101022/.

Columbage, Dinouk 2012 “Post War – The Cries of the Desperate and Destitute,” Sunday Leader, 5 August 2012.

Columbage, Dinouk 2012 “Sri Lanka tells Australian Navy to turn back vessels,” Sunday Leader, 5 August 2012, http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2012/07/29/sri-lanka-tells-australian-navy-to-turn-back-illegal-vessels/

CNN 2010 “Exclusive: On board the Tamil asylum boat,” January 2010, http://srilanka-warcrimes.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/exclusive-on-board-tamil-asylum-boat.html

Daily News 2010 “Lankan asylum-seekers bound for Australia,” 22 Oct. 2010.

Defence Ministry2010 “Exposed: Police investigates (sic) on bogus asylum seekers,” 25 June 2012,http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=police_investigates_on_bogus_asylum_seekers_20120625_05.

Defence Ministry 2012 “Exposed: TamilNet allegation on the death of UK deportee!”http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=Exposed_TamilNet_allegation_on_the_death_of_UK_deportee_20120606_06

De Havilland, Charles 2012 “Sri Lanka UNICEF expands family reunion programme,” http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/05/sri-lanka-unicef-expands-family-reunion-programme/

Doherty, Ben 2011 “Lost in translation: Tamil refugees in India and their dangerous gambles,” http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/10/lost-in-transportation-tamil-refugees-in-india-and-their-dangerous-gambles/

Doherty, Ben 2012 “Asylum seeker numbers rising fast,” Australian, 2 July 2012, http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/07/29/fea06.asp

Doherty, Ben 2012 “Tamils: why we get on boats,” Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2012, http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/tamils-why-we-get-on-the-boats-20120720-22fuj.html.

De Silva, Sam 2007 “Diaspora dilemmas: Australia and the Sri Lanka conflict,” http://groundviews.org/2007/05/26/diaspora-dilemmas-australia-and-the-sri-lanka-conflict/

De Silva, Sam 2007 “Asylum Seeking Down under…,” 19 March 2007, http://groundviews.org/2007/03/19/asylum-seeking-downunder/

De Silva-Ranasinghe, Sergei 2010“Beware of asylum-seekers bearing tales of woe,” Australian, 7 April 2010.

De Silva-Ranasinghe, Sergei “Civilian casualties, IDP camps and asylum-seekers. Interview with Father Rohan Silva,” http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/11/28/civilian-casualties-idp-camps-and-asylum-seekers/

Feith, David 2009 “Tamils horrific treatment makes them desperate to leave,” 30 October 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/contributors/

Ferdinando, Shamindra “Tackling illegal immigrants: Australia’s SLN role,” Island, 22 Oct. 2010.

Ferdinando, Shamindra 2012 “British HC denies claims of deportee abuse,” 20 June 2012, http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=54899

Ferdinando, Shamindra 2012 “Deportation only antidote to human smuggling– SLN Chief tells Aussie HC,” Island, 21 July 2012, http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=57282.

Fitzpatrick, Stephen, Patricia Karvelas & Paige Taylor 2010 “Merak girl Brindha beats ban on refugees,” 21 April 2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/merak-girl-beats-ban-on-refugees/story-e6frg6n6-1225856140854.

Fitzgerald, Stephen 2010 “Oceanic Viking asylum-seeker stand-off became an international circus,” The Australian, 4 January 2010.

Fitzpatrick, Stephen 2009 “Brother speaks up for ‘Alex’,” The Australian, 9 November 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/brother-speaks-up-for-alex/story-e6frgczf-1225796287303.

Fitzpatrick, Stephen 2009 “Finally, the real Alex steps forward,” The Australian, 9 November 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/finally-the-real-alex-steps-forward/story-e6frg6n6-1225795570337.

Fitzpatrick, Stephen 2009 “End Tamil boat sit-in, pleads mother of `Alex’,” The Australian, 2 December 2009,http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/end-tamil-boat-sit-in-pleads-mother-of-alex/story-e6frg6nf-1225805928615.

Fitzpatrick, Stephen 2010 “Dockside protest leader deserts post, leaving hope in his wake,” The Australian, 2 March 2010.

Flitton, Daniel 2012 “Fears for deported man,” The Age, 26 July 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/fears-for-deported-tamil-man-20120725-22r4g.html.

Flitton, Daniel 2012 “UN bid for Tamil to stay fails,” The Age, 27 July 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/un-bid-for-tamil-to-stay-fails-20120726-22ve7.html

Flitton, Daniel 2012 ““Tamil activists would pay to ship refugees,”     http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/tamil-activists-would-pay-to-ship-refugees-20120729-236es.html

Guest, Debbie 2012 “Tamil boat people from the Merak speak of betrayal,” http://thuppahis.com/2012/01/05/tamil-boat-people-from-the-merak-speak-of-betrayal/

Hodge, Amanda and Paige Taylor 2009 “Tamil spokesman ‘Alex’ a smuggler, says Sri Lankan government,” 7 November 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/tamil-spokesman-alex-a-smuggler-says-sri-lankan-government/story-e6frg6nf-1225795200705.

Hodge, Amanda 2009 “Smuggler ‘shamed’ by criminal status,” The Australian, 14 Oct 2009

Hodge, Amanda 2009 “[Q and A Interview with Stephen Smith]” 15 October 2009, http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/transcripts/2009/091015_aus.html.

Hodge, Amanda 2009 “Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lankan police state,” The Australian, 21 October 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/tamil-refugees-fleeing-sri-lankan-police-state/story-e6frg6no-1225789068446.

Hodge, Amanda 2009 “Among the smugglers,” The Australian, 21 October 2009, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26237701-28737,00.html

Hodge, Amanda 2009 “Ex-Tamil Tiger Kunam awaits 13-cylinder trip,” The Australian, 29 October, 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/ex-tamil-tiger-kunam-awaits-13-cylinder-trip/story-e6frg6so-1225792280228.

Hodge, Amanda 2012 ‘Tortured’ Tamil put on a plane back to Sri Lanka,” Australian, 26 July (with Stuart Rintoul)http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/26/allegation-tortured-tamil-put-on-a-plane-back-to-sri-lanka/

Hodge, Amanda 2012 “Deported Tamil recants tales of torture,” Weekend Australian, 28/29 July 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/28/6405/

Hodge, Amanda 2012 “Dramatic mid-sea transfer ends freedom run,” Australian, 30 July 2012,http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/dramatic-mid-sea-transfer-ends-freedom-run/story-fn9hm1gu-1226438080707

Hohenboken, Angus 2010 “Sri Lanka grills Tamils in Jakarta,” The Australian9 January 2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sri-lanka-grills-tamils-in-jakarta/story-e6frg6so-1225817519367

IRIN 2012 “More people boarding boats to Australia,”20 July 2012.

Jayawardhana, Walter 2010 “Fake passports suspected to be issued by the LTTE,” http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070402_03.

Jayasekera, Shanaka 2012  “Sri Lankan boat refugees move to Australia,” Sunday Observer, 29 July 2012, http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/07/29/fea06.asp.

Kelly, Joe 2009 “Father of ‘Alex’ asks PM for sympathy,” The Australian, 21 November 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/father-of-alex-asks-pm-for-sympathy/story-e6frg6nf-1225800999188.

Kingsbury, Damien 2009 “Demonising the victims?” ABC Unleashed, 26 October 2009, http:// ww.abc.net.au/unleashed/27136.html.

Legge, Kate 2011 “Rocking the Boat: Children as Path-clearing Asylum-Seekers” [title altered] The Weekend Australian, 9 July 2011, http://thuppahis.com/2011/07/09/rocking-the-boat-children-as-path-clearing-asylum-seekers/

MacLeod, Ian 2009 “Mystery ship belongs to Tamil Tigers: experts,” 24 October 2009, http://theacademic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9703.

Maley, Paul 2010 “Tamils safe to return home, says Sri Lanka,” The Australian, 15 January 2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/tamils-safe-to-return-home-says-sri-lanka/story-e6frg6nf-1225819478151

Maley, Paul 2010 “Refugee was Tigers `agent’,” The Australian, 9 March 2010,http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/refugee-was-tigers-agent/story-e6frg6nf-1225838421226.

Maley, Paul 2010 “Tamils face return in UN review,” The Australian, 9 April 2010.

Maley, Paul 2012 “People-smuggling a Tamil propaganda plot: Sri Lanka,” The Australian, 29 May 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/05/30/people-smuggling-a-tamil-propaganda-plot-sri-lanka/.

Paul Maley and Paige Taylor 2009  “Tamil Tigers join race for asylum,” The Australian, 26 October 2009.

Nadesan, Noel 2011 “Media and thesuffering of the Tamil people — Noel Nadesan’s Open Letter to Australians,”
http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/09/media-and-the-suffering-of-the-tamil-people-noel-nadesans-open-letter-to-australians/.

Neighbour, Sally 2009 “Test of stamina,” 16 November 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/test-of-stamina/story-e6frg6z6-1225797967508.

Neighbour, Sally 2010 16 July 2010, “Tamil Tigers at the front door,” http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/tamil-tigers-at-the-front-door/story-e6frg6z6-1225892362845.

News Item 2009 “End Tamil boat sit-in, pleads mother of `Alex,” The Australian 2 Dec. 2009, page 9.

News Item 2009 “Sri Lankans using India to flee overseas illegally,” Daily Mirror, 1 December 2009.

News Item 2011“Potential boat people apprehended,” from The Island, March 11, 2011 as http://thuppahis.com/2011/03/23/potential-boat-people-apprehended/.

News Item 2012 “Sri Lanka Arrests More ‘Boatpeople’ Heading to Australia,” 16 July 2012, http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/sri-lanka-arrests-more-boatpeople-heading-to-australia/530749.

News Item 2012 “ ‘Italy Rajan’ and other people smugglers in India: their package deals,” in The Nation,  11 July 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/11/italy-rajan-and-other-people-smugglers-in-india-their-packkage-deals/

Parnell, Sean 2012 “Roxon clears Tamil’s extradition to US,” The Australian, 30 July 2012, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/foi/roxon-clears-tamils-extradition-to-us/story-fn8r0e18-1226438076806.

Parnell., Sean 2012 “AFP rejected refugee offer to name names,” The Australian, 31 July 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/31/thulasitharan-santhirarajah-ltte-arms-procurer-sought-deal-but/#more-6466.

Perera, Amantha 2010 “Untangling the Knotty Issue of Human Smuggling,” 31 October 2010, http://ipsnews.net/ news.asp?idnews=49245

Perera, Suvendrini 2009 “Who’s Hearing The People Smuggling ‘Message’? 15 December 2009, http://newmatilda.com/2009/12/15/clear-message-people-smuggling-asylum-seekers

Puvenitharan, Bhakthi 2010 “Tamils for Green?”18 August 2010, http//union.melbourne.edu.au/farrago/politics/tamils-for-greens.

Rajalingam, Gobie 2009 “Boat people a symptom of Sri Lanka’s dark side,” 14 October 2009.

Roberts, Michael

—-2009a “Tamil Migration within and beyond Sri Lanka,” 5 October 2009, http://thuppahis.com/2009/12/05/tamil-migration-within-and-beyond-sri-lanka/

—-2009b “Taken in by Tamil Tall Tales,” 4 Nov 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/taken-in-by-tamil-tall-tales/story-e6frg6zo-1225794053578

—-2009c “Adjutant Australia: Controlling Boat People,” 7 Nov 2009, http://groundviews.org/2009/11/07/adjutant-australia-controlling-boat-people/

—-2009d “Crude reasoning,” 17 November 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2736651.htm

—-2009e “Speaking from Ignorance: Australians on Sri Lanka & Its Boat People,” 4 December 2009, http://thuppahis.com/2009/12/04/speaking-from-ignorance-australians-on-sri-lanka-its-boat-people/

—-2009f “Alex’ Kuhendrarajah and the Australian media,” 20 January 2010, http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2010/01/20/%E2%80%98alex%E2%80%99-kuhendrarajah-and-the-australian-media/

—-2010a “Boat People as Blanket Categories,” 19 April 2010, http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/southasiamasala/2010/04/19/boat-people-as-blanket-categories/8

—-2010b “Aussies swallow Lies and Rajapaksas miss a Trick,” 31 Oct. 2010, http://thuppahis.com/2010/10/31/aussies-swallow-lies-rajapakses-miss-a-trick/

—-2010c “From “Leaky Wooden Boats” to the Imbecile Asian,” 27 December 2010 = http://thuppahis.com/2010/12/27/from-%E2%80%9Cleaky-wooden-boats%E2%80%9D-to-the-imbecile-asian-2/

—-2010d “Missing the Boat: Australians at Sea on Asylum-Seekers,” 19 October 2011, http://thuppahis.com/2011/10/19/missing-the-boat-australians-at-sea-on-asylum-seekers/

—-2010e “Mahesh Pushpakumara: the saga of the marooned fisherman,” 20 November 2010, http://thuppahis.com/2010/11/20/mahesh-pushpakumara-the-saga-of-the-marooned-fisherman/

2012 “Boat People to Australia: A Comment on The Social Architects’ Survey and Twist on the Tale,” 24 July 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/24/boat-people-to-australia-a-comment-on-the-social-architects-survey-and-twist-on-the-tale/.

—- 2012 “Australian Gullibility: forgeries, lies and manipulation in the netherworld of in-migration, 26 July 2012,http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/26/australian-gullibility-forgeries-lies-and-manipulation-in-the-netherworld-of-in-migration/

—- 2012 “Amanda Hodge adds twist to Dayan Anthony’s tale,” 28 July 2012,http://thuppahis.com/2012/07/28/6405/

Shanika Sriyananda 2012 “Economic concerns main reason for sri lankan boat people, says terrorism expert,” Sunday Observer 29 July 2012,     http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/07/29/fea06.asp

Seneviratne, Kalinga 2009 “Western Media Gullibility makes Asylum-seeking Good Business,” Tempo, 3 November 2009, pp. 36-37.

Stephen Smith 2009 “Interview with Amanda Hodge –The Australian,” 15 October 2009, http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/transcripts/2009/091015_aus.html

Schliers, Mark2012 “STAR CHAMBER  laws used in smuggler wars in Australia,” The Australian, 6 August 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/08/07/star-chamber-laws-used-in-smuggler-was-in-australia/#more-6604.

Schliers, Mark 2012 “Backing for use of “Star Chamber”,The Australian, 7 August 2012

Stewart, Cameron & Paul Maley 2012 “Who’s Funding the people  smugglers?” The Weekend Australian, 4/5 August 2012.

Social Architects, The 2012 “Troubled Waters: Corruption and Human Trafficking in Post-war Sri Lanka,” 19 July 2012, http://groundviews.org/2012/07/19/troubled-waters-corruption-and-human-trafficking-in-post-war-sri-lanka/.

The Tamil Boat People Controversy, http://newsinreview.cbclearning.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oct10tamil.pdf

Taylor, Paige 2011 “Little Brindha rejected by the Immigration Department,” http://thuppahis.com/2011/01/04/little-brindha-rejected-by-immigration-department/

Taylor, Paige 2011 “Boat People: direct from Lanka to Australia with WHAT?” 30 May 2012, http://thuppahis.com/2012/05/30/boat-people-direct-from-lanka-to-australia-with-what/.

Underpala 2009 Amanda Hodge and her journalistic hodgepodge,” Lakbima English Weekly, 22 November 2009.

UNHCR 2011 “Lankan Asylum Seekers: Variety and Spice in Several Tales,” 21 june 20111, http://thuppahis.com/2011/06/21/lankan-asylum-seekers-variety-and-spice-in-several-tales/#comments.

Waldman, Lorne 2012 “How we should deal with the Tamil boat people,” http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/846789–how-we-should-deal-with-the-tamil-boat-people

Warne-Smith, Drew 2009 “Tamils herded into disease-ridden camps seek any escape,” 24 October 2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tamils-herded-into-disease-ridden-camps-seek-any-escape/story-e6frg6so-1225790617514.

Weerasinghe, Chamikara 2011 “Resettlement of Tamil Refugees in India within Sri Lanka in Progress,” http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/01/resettlement-of-tamil-refugees-in-india-within-lanka-in-process/

Weiss, Gordon 2010 “Tamil Tiger is extinct and the regime knows it,” 16 July 2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/tamil-tiger-is-extinct-and-regime-knows-it/story-e6frg6zo-1225892329407

Whitley, Angus “Australia, Sri Lanka Sign Legal Pact to Fight People Smuggling,” 10 Nov 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/cfo.html.

Wickremasekara Damith & Aanya Wipulasena 2012 “Risking blue waters for greener pastures,” Sunday Times, 22 July 2012, http://www.sundaytimes.lk/120722/news/risking-blue-waters-for-greener-pastures-6714.html.

Wockner, Cindy “Bound for South Australia?” Advertiser, 22 Oct. 2010, p. 11 or http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/asylum-seekers-bound-for-south-australia/story-e6frea83-1225941958846.