Niro Kandasamy

Dr Niro Kandasamy is a lecturer in history at the University of Sydney. Under the supervision of Professor Joy Damousi and Dr Jordana Silverstein, she completed her PhD in 2019 as part of Professor Damousi’s ARC Laureate Fellowship project "Child Refugees in Australia and Internationalism: 1920 to the Present". She was a student visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre in 2018. She is co-editor of A Sense of Viidu: The (Re)creation of Home by the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Australia – the first compilation of the resettlement experiences of the Tamil diaspora in Australia.

Twitter : @Niro_Kan

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23 June 2022

Human rights

The Sri Lankan state is using violence to unleash fury on its citizens, as its political and economic crisis deepens

Niro Kandasamy: Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, and the responses of the state indicate it is incapable of protecting its [...]Read the full article

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