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Factors impact on choice of television channels: special reference on Eravur, Batticaloa
(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Baskaran, N.
Female Migration and its Practice among the Muslim Community: With Special Reference to the Trincomalee District
(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Baskaran, N.
Introduction:The term 'migration' has come into the usage of social discourses mainly to refer to the movement or mobilization of certain people within a social system. Female migration can play a key role in rural areas due to their mobility at household level in rural areas in Sri Lanka. The end of the three decade long civil war in Sri Lanka was declared in May 2009. The war and its related processes resulted in significant levels of male and female migration and impacted the rural community significantly. Nevertheless, at present, female migration from rural areas to outside of the country is an issue of Muslim communities in rural areas in Sri Lanka. Materials and Methods: Given this social context, this study especially focuses on two major components such as female migration and rural families among the Muslim community. Under these components, this research attempts to understand how various forms of female migration and their impact on families in a rural community by particularly focusing on the rural spaces. In this research, primary data was collected from a sample of 82 rural family respondents in the selected rural area of Pulmoddai, Trincomalee district in Sri Lanka. The selected respondents were used in- depth interviews, case studies and non participation observation as the ways of collecting primary data. The data was analyzed using grounded theory model.
The Impact of Diabetes on Worker Performance in the Public Sector: the Case of a Selected Area in Jaffna City
(Sri Lanka Forum of University Economists (SLFUE), Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Baskaran, N.
Making and Unmaking the Meaning of Widowhood: A Case Study on Elderly Widows in Post War Jaffna
(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Baskaran, N.
Loss and bereavement are an important part of anybody’s life. Experience of loss is even more distressing when the death of a person brings additional social stigma. Such is the experience of widowhood in post war Sri Lanka. A common idea about this experience in a country like Sri Lanka is the ‘colorless’ life a widow is expected to live till the time she breathes on this earth. A widow is stigmatized, feared and segregated from the family and wider society. An elderly widow is at a particular disadvantage, as she has to face discrimination on three grounds – gender, age and widowhood. Given this context, this study, intended to understand the social background of elderly widows. The main objective of this study is to consider the Common conceptions about widowhood and looking into how different meaning of this experience emerges in post-war Jaffna. Time and again many researchers have tried to get to the basics of understanding widowhood. This paper’s primary concern is to fill this gap of doctrinal approach of meaning attribution to widowhood through a qualitative sociological approach on the meaning of widowhood based on real life experiences in post war Jaffna, Sri Lanka. This study makes further attempts to answer the following specific research questions– How do elderly widows construct meaning of their status as widows in post war Jaffna? And do their role, status and experience within the household and family effect creation of such meaning? This study conducted a qualitative research based on random sampling method. This paper has reported on the experiences of 62 elderly widows. The participants were selected from a list of those who got registered as elderly widows at the divisional secretariat in Jaffna. The selected respondents were using in-depth interviews, non- direct and participant observation and key informant interviews (09) as the ways of collecting primary data through the purposive sampling. The method for the analysis of data is theme analysis based on grounded theory for the analysis of field interviews. The focus of this paper is on elderly widows as they are the ones whom more likely to have grave experience of widowhood on the basis of their gender, age, day to day life events, situations, etc. This preliminary fieldwork pertaining to the topic gave us a sense that not all the widows have attached the same kind of meaning to their widowhood experience. Creation of a; meaning depends on various factors from grief of losing a caring husband to the relief of getting rid of a drunkard husband. Since issue of elderly people have become a central part of the development and social work discourse in the post-war Tamil society, findings through this study can be helpful in developing better understanding of elderly widowhood and what kind of approach and policies need to be formulated to address their issues and grievances.