New York University Paris

False binaries and true fictions: An ethnographic examination of what the Sri Lankan Tamil refugee characters in Shobasakthi's literature reveal about European asylum regimes

Abstract This paper analyses the film and literary works of Paris‐based actor and author Shobasakthi, the pen name of Antonythasan Jesuthasan, as ethnographic texts in dialogue with anthropological scholarship on asylum and European migration. Shobasakthi, himself a Sri Lankan Ta...