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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Authors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 PATTERNS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION IN SRI LANKA -- Interdistrict Population Movement -- Measures of Interdistrict Migration -- Sex Ratios as Clues to Migration -- Regional Differentials -- Growth Rates, Densities, and Sex Ratios -- Rural-Urban Migration -- Ethnic Patterns -- Conclusion -- 2 UNBALANCED SEX RATIOS -- Sex Ratio Variations by Age Group -- Juveniles -- 10-19 Year-Olds -- 20-29 Year-Olds -- Older Adults -- Summary of the Sex Ratio Data -- Data on Migrants in the Population -- Sociocultural Correlates -- Spouse Separation -- Conclusion -- 3 RISING SUICIDE RATES -- The Increase in Suicides -- District Variations -- Sex Differentials -- Age Groups -- Suicide in Selected Districts -- Migration, Social Disruption, and Suicide -- Conclusion -- 4 ETHNIC CONFRONTATION -- The Ethnic Communities of Sri Lanka -- Migration and the "Tamil Homeland -- Ethnic Change in the North and East -- Lifetime Migrants -- Urbanization -- Sri Lanka Tamil Population Movement -- Ethnicity and the Proposed Eelam -- Conclusion -- 5 FUTURE RESEARCH AND POLICY IMPLICATONS -- Prospective Research Directions -- Public Policy Considerations -- In Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Prominent position of the confrontation between the Sinhalese ethnic majority and the Sri Lankan Tamil minority in the politics of Sri Lanka. Mounting incidence of communal violence that have accompanied demands for a separate state for the Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic minority.