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Refugee Communities as Agents of Historical Change: Tamil Refugee Responses during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Community, History, Refugees, Tamil Refugees

Refugee Communities as Agents of Historical Change: Tamil Refugee Responses during the Coronavirus Pandemic

May 14, 2021

By Niro Kandasamy

On April 27, 2020, the Tamil Refugee Council made a statement on Facebook about the extreme difficulties facing Tamil refugees in Australia who had lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic and were unable to feed their children: “On Saturday we had to deliver formula milk for a one-year-old child in Geelong.” Over the following months, the Tamil Refugee Council documented the plight of Tamil refugees on its Facebook page while making visible the vital role played by its Tamil volunteers…

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