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1363:. In 1958 The Malaysian Ceylonese Congress was established as a political party with the aim of giving support to the then Alliance party. MCC has continuously supported the Barisan Nasional and the Government. It was formed to promote and preserve the Political, Educational, Social and Cultural aspects of the Malaysian Ceylonese Community. To date MCC has seen six President's:
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1824:(started in the 19th century). They include Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and backgrounds and boast a large population in the country. In 2021, the estimated population of the UK born in Sri Lanka was 131,000. Most Sri Lankans live in London, South East England, East England and The Midlands. However, the number of people of Sri Lankan descent might be around 300,000-400,000.
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to compete with all other citizens fairly and without discrimination. This, as far as the
Singapore government is concerned, is what is best for all of us. I believe that the future belongs to that society which acknowledges and rewards ability, drive and high performance without regard to race, language or religion.
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For example in
Singapore, today, the Speaker of Parliament is a Ceylonese. So is our High Commissioner in Great Britain. So is our Foreign Minister. In the Judiciary, in the civil service, in the university, in the medical Service and in the professions they continue to make substantial contributions
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Expatriate workers to Sri Lanka have been a valuable export for the country. The number of expatriate workers has been ever growing as well as the remittances they send back. In 2009 Sri
Lankans sent home US$ 3.3 billion, a US$ 400 million increase from the year before. It is expected that 2010 would
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A publication by the
Australian National University noted that while most of the diaspora in the Western World and East Asia were long term residents with a large percentage having local citzenship and children born in their host country, most of the diaspora in the Middle East were temporary workers
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In the late 70's, Sinhalese
Catholic women migrated to Italy to work in elderly homes. This was followed by a wave of Sinhalese migrants who worked for Italian entrepreneurs in the early 80s. Italy was often seen as a temporary destination, but many Sinhalese decided to settle there. Many Sinhalese
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to Tamils. In 1987, the Office for the
Protection of Refugees (OFPRA) gained in power and opened up a period of nearly systematic asylum. This liberal period eventually tapered off in the 90s as a result of new European measures designed against an influx in immigration. Little Jaffna is also famous
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As of 2017 estimation, there are 52,300 Sri Lankan born population live in France. In only 10 years, "Little Jaffna", located at the last stretch of the winding street of Rue du
Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement, between metros Gare du Nord and La Chapelle, has sprung to life and begun
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The point is that the
Ceylonese are holding their own in open competition with communities far larger than them. They have asked for no special favour or consideration as a minority. What they have asked for – and quite rightly – is that they should be judged on their merits and that they be allowed
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found that there were approximately 29,055 Sinhalese
Australians (0.1 percent of the population). That was an addition of 8,395 Sinhalese Australians (a 40.6 percent increase) from the 2001 Census. There are 73,849 Australians (0.4 of the population) who reported having Sinhalese ancestry in 2006.
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The second and third generations of Tamils have integrated very well into the German society, contributing in all skilled professions. Tamils are known as hard workers. The identity of Hindus can be seen in city Hamm, where the temple was built with 17-meter-high
Gopuram and the layout rebuilt in
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An estimate in 2013 by the United Nations concluded that the diaspora numbered around three million, with large concentrations in Europe, Middle East, East Asia, Australia and North America. Note that population statistics may not include those that were born outside Sri Lanka or do not hold Sri
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Sri Lankans make up around 2.5% of the population in the Seychelles where the number is at 2,200. It is said that the first Sri Lankans to reach the Seychelles was in 1967 where 6 fisherman from Sri Lanka came to the Seychelles on a sailing vessel. Today, many Sri Lankans in the Seychelles are
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In terms of numbers, the Ceylonese, like the Eurasians, are among the smallest of our various communities. Yet in terms of achievements and contributions to the growth and development of the modern Singapore and Malaysia they have done more than warranted by their numbers. In the early days of
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was the former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Singapore and regarded as one of the founding fathers of Singapore. His death in 2006 was marked with a state funeral by the government of Singapore. The Singapore flag was flown at half mast at all public buildings and former Prime
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had its connection. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Dutch brought slaves from Ceylon and those slaves mixed with the population. In the Cape during the early 18th century about half of the slaves came from India and Ceylon. The ethnic groups which have roots of descent from Ceylon are the
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primarily involving migration of Burghers, who fulfilled the then criteria that they should be of predominantly European ancestry and that their appearance should be European. Sinhalese migration began in the 1960s but it was after the mid-1970s that large groups arrived, which also included
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of the 2nd division of the Ceylon Pioneer Corp. "So it fell to the Ceylonese to survey the railways and to build and man them, to be apothecaries in the hospitals, to be technical assistants to qualified engineers and to staff the clerical services on which an expanding government was bound
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According to the 2010 census, there are about 146 Sri Lankan expats in the Philippines. During the age of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, Sri Lankans were used as imported slave labour and those slaves interacted with the Minnanese, Tagalogs and Kampaganans of Central Luzon.
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In December 2023, it was reported that Romania has attracted increased numbers of immigrants from South Asia, including Nepalis and Sri Lankans. Sri Lankans in Romania made up the second largest expatriate force of non-European Union origin, with a total of 15,807 people.
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Today MCC makes its way in this ever-changing globe under the dynamic leadership of Dato Dr NKS Tharmaseelan. After 50 years of hibernation MCC has now become visible. The MCC was formally registered with the Malaysian Election's Commission (SPR) on 27 February 2009.
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There are tens of thousands of Sri Lankans in the United States from all different backgrounds. In the 1990s the number was about 14,448, however this has grown significantly. Sri Lankan American communities are mainly situated in large metropolitan areas. The
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Sri Lankan expatriates have a low rate of return migration to Sri Lanka, even though many continue to maintain close ties with their home country. Though there have been cases where most migrated back to their homeland at least some point in their life.
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There have long been complaints about the hardship and human rights abuses of migrant workers living in the Middle East. Domestic workers in the Middle East often face arbitrary torture and indefinite detention amounting to cruel and inhumane treatment.
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Malaysia's and Singapore's history the civil service and the professions were manned by a good number of Ceylonese. Even today the Ceylonese community continues to play a prominent role in these and other fields of civil life.
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were former British and Dutch colonies but the presence of Sri Lankans in Mauritius goes back to between 1819 and 1832 during the British Period when Sinhalese nobles were exiled to Mauritius from the result of the
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Because the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) uses Sinhalese as opposed to Sri Lankan as the category to define ancestry, it is hard to estimate the number of Tamil Sri Lankans currently living in Australia
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Sri Lankan people have came to work in Tanzania during the British colonial rule of the early 20th Century. The workers from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) established the first buddhist temple in the country.
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Even today, the Sri Lankan community in Malaysia and Singapore is an upwardly mobile community taking up many professional and government posts. One of Malaysia's and South East Asia's richest men is
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In 2017, there were 12,696 Sri Lankans in the Netherlands, with just over 5,700 of them second generation Sri Lankans in the Netherlands. There were 5,500 men and a thousand less women in 2010.
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Many Sinhalese have migrated to Italy since the 1970s. Italy was attractive to the Sinhalese due to perceived easier employment opportunities and entry, compared to other European countries.
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Sri Lankan New Zealanders comprised 3% of the Asian population of New Zealand in 2001. Out of the Asians, the Sri Lankans were the most likely to hold a formal qualification and to work in
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The rate of assimilation among Sri Lankan Australians is fairly high: among second-generation immigrants, the 'in-marriage' rate was extremely low - 5.6% for women and 3.0% for men.
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Admission acts also encouraged more Sinhalese to migrate to Italy. For example, the Dini Decree in 1996 made it more easier for Sinhalese workers to bring their family to Italy. In
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There have been sources of Sri Lankan presence in Italy since the Roman times as according to historian Pliny, 4 people from Sri Lanka was said to have visited the court of Emperor
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There are an estimated population of over 300,000 they mostly form the country's large foreign labour force. Most expatriates from Sri Lanka, along with other immigrants from the
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This was 26 percent more in 2001, in which 58,602 Australia reported having Sinhalese ancestry. The census is counted by Sri Lankans who speak the Sinhalese language at home.
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The Sri Lanka - Italy Business Council - Ceylon Chamber of Commerce is an organization in Italy for promoting investment, trade and joint venture between the two countries.
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occupations. Sri Lankans mainly worked in health professions, business and property services, and the retail and manufacturing sectors, in large numbers. Most lived in
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2902:"Ethnic origins, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, majority of the Sri Lankan diaspora is found in Scarborough Toronto. - 20% sample data"
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contains the largest Sri Lankan community in the United States, receiving the highest legal permanent resident Sri Lankan immigrant population, followed by
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Libya's 2007 census says that there are over 15,010 workers from Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Sinhalese make up two-thirds of the buddhist population of Libya.
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There are about 46,000 to 55,000 Swiss of Sri Lankan origin and Sri Lankan expatriates are living in Switzerland, with around 32,000 to 42,000 home to
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In 1979 there were only six Sri Lankans living in Bermuda. As of 2005 there are an estimated 400 living and working there mainly as professionals
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Denmark has 11,700 Sri Lankans residing in its borders as of 2017. Additionally 2,593 Sri Lankan nationals were living in Denmark as of 2010.
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It is estimated that there are 110,000 Sinhalese in Italy in 2019 (tuttitalia site). The major Sinhalese communities in Italy are located in
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According to The United Nations, there were 110,596 international migrants in Botswana and in that number 992 of them were from Sri Lanka.
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Lankan citizenship, and large populations of ethnic Tamils and Sinhalese exist outside Sri Lanka which are not covered by this article.
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The Sinhalese prefer to send their children to English speaking countries for their education and consider Italian education mediocre.
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out of all proportion to their numbers. They are there not because they are members of a minority community but on the basis of merit.
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as refugees in the 1980s, escaping the violent civil conflict. The French Prefecture was initially quite reluctant about granting
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with little roots in said countries; it is near impossible for Sri Lankans to obtain citizenship of Middle Eastern countries.
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The numbers arriving continued to increase, and at the 2013 census there were over 11,000 Sri Lankans living in New Zealand.
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intensified as their numbers swelled. Due to the inspirational encouragement of Hawaii Subramaniaswami – the disciple of
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were a few prospectors attracted to the gold rushes. By 1874 there were a mere 33 New Zealand residents born in Ceylon.
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Sri Lankan Canadians include members from all ethnicities of Sri Lanka, they are mainly concentrated in the cities of
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There are approximately 80,000 to 90,000 Sri Lankans in Lebanon. There is a large domestic labour population in
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in AD 50 while another delegation was sent from Sri Lanka to Rome under the reign of Emperor Julian in 375 AD.
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procession held during Ganesha Chathurthi. Both the area and event have become popular tourist attractions.
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The Ceylonese community established many schools, banks, cultural societies, cooperatives and temples in
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There are an estimated 200,000 Sri Lankans in India, most of them being refugees. Nearly all of them are
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Ranjith Henayaka-Lochbihler & Miriam Lambusta. (2004). The Sri Lankan Diaspora in Italy. Available:
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recorded 13,772 Sri Lankans living in Norway, an increase of 339 from the year before. The capital city
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exceed US$ 4 billion. In mid-2010 there were more than 1.8 million Sri Lankan expatriate workers.
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Hugo, Graeme; Dissanayake, Lakshman (7 December 2017), McAuliffe, Marie; Koser, Khalid (eds.),
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to truly flourish. It is commonly mistakenly called by the average Parisian as Little Bombay.
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were popularly used by the Sri Lankan Tamils to differentiate themselves from the larger
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is one of the largest Sri Lankan communities outside of the country of Sri Lanka itself.
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is the largest "unskilled and semi-skilled labour" importing country, ahead of
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as well. Most Sri Lankans in India reside in and around the southern state of
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2846:"An Imperial Saga: The Kandyan Sinhalese Prisoners in Mauritius, 1819-1832"
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Sri Lankans generally go to the Middle East to find work. For Sri Lankans
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3185:"Sri Lankan expats to get free IT and English language training"
3103:"...Or Does It Explode?: 80,000 Sri Lankans Stranded in Lebanon"
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As of 2007 there were approximately 400,000 Sri Lankans in
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have also illegally migrated to Italy, mainly through the
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were of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. The world's first Asian
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policy, immigration was negligible. It resumed after the
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2576:"Population; sex, age, origin and generation, 1 January"
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2619:"Preliminary Results of the Census of Population, 2011"
2498:(in German). Statistisches Bundesamt. 2019. p. 43
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2190:"International Migration Outlook – Sri Lanka 2008"
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3004:. International Crisis Group. 201. Archived from
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938:Abuses against migrant workers in the Middle East
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1993:"Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country"
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2654:(1st ed.), ANU Press, pp. 197–226,
2607:. Denmark: Statistics Denmark. 16 March 2021.
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3077:"Over 2,000 Lankans repatriated from Saudi"
2692:"Breaking the citizenship taboo in the UAE"
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1593:The vast majority of Parisian Tamils fled
1264:"It was to meet those early problems that
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3318:García-Ajofrín, Lola (14 December 2023).
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2461:"Interactive World Migration Report 2022"
2045:"Interactive World Migration Report 2022"
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3128:Dissanayake, Samanthi (21 July 2006).
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2863:"Seychelles- a world within a world"
2315:United States Department of Commerce
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154:Regions with significant populations
47:adding citations to reliable sources
3385:"Sri Lankan Diaspora - Switzerland"
3347:. Statistics Sweden. Archived from
3295:. Statistics Norway. Archived from
3130:"Sri Lankan maids stranded by war"
2489:"Bevölkerung und Erwerbstätigkeit"
1351:. Some good examples would be the
1322:Former Singaporean Prime Minister
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2221:. Tuttitalia Dati Ufficiali ISTAT
2072:. Australian Bureau of Statistics
1955:List of Sri Lankan New Zealanders
1298:Sri Kandaswamy Kovil, Brickfields
1234:prior to independence. It was in
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2156:. Office for National Statistics
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1950:List of Sri Lankans in Singapore
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2240:Toumi, Habib (5 October 2016).
1919:List of Sri Lankans by diaspora
1913:Notable members of the diaspora
1107:New York City Metropolitan Area
34:needs additional citations for
2094:Snoj, Jure (7 February 2017).
1930:List of Sri Lankan Australians
1888:, with smaller populations in
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3234:. Last accessed 3 April 2010.
2972:Amy Zavatto (5 August 2010).
2017:GMI Blogger (1 August 2023).
1672:(In the districts Loreto and
1427:magazine's billionaire list.
1115:Los Angeles metropolitan area
871:are Sri Lankan emigrants and
2219:"2022 - Cingalesi in italia"
1940:List of Sri Lankan Canadians
1925:List of Sri Lankan Americans
1421:, who regularly makes it to
1353:Jaffnese Cooperative Society
1315:was Dr S.S. Thiruchelvam, a
1214:Malaysian Ceylonese Congress
2310:United States Census Bureau
2278:(in Arabic). Archived from
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1319:of Ceylonese Tamil origin.
1268:looked to its older sister
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1997:Migration Policy Institute
1945:List of Sri Lankan Indians
1935:List of Sri Lankan Britons
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3269:. Statistics Netherlands
2578:. Statistics Netherlands
1972:List of Sri Lanka Tamils
1862:Sri Lankan New Zealander
1845:2006 Census in Australia
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1277:increasingly to depend.
1208:Sri Lankans in Singapore
909:In Australia, under the
2661:10.22459/lwg.12.2017.08
1625:Religious fervor among
1419:Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan
1204:Sri Lankans in Malaysia
977:Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and
2748:"Exported and Exposed"
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1259:Pangkor Treaty of 1874
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1198:Malaysia and Singapore
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1003:During the era of The
924:White Australia policy
2796:Amnesty International
2770:Amnesty International
2696:Middle East Institute
2621:. Statistical Service
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843:Related ethnic groups
58:"Sri Lankan diaspora"
3569:United Arab Emirates
2832:"Sinhalese in Libya"
2716:Somarathna, Rasika.
2023:Global Media Insight
1822:British ruled Ceylon
1657:Sri Lankans in Italy
1506:United Arab Emirates
1458:United Arab Emirates
1407:Minister and friend
1190:Sri Lankans in Japan
1178:Sri Lankan Civil War
1152:Sri Lankans in India
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1100:Sri Lankan Americans
1062:Sri Lankan Canadians
169:United Arab Emirates
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4438:Sri Lankan diaspora
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3391:on 10 December 2010
3079:. Sunday Observer.
2908:. Statistics Canada
2754:. 13 November 2007.
2553:. Statistics Norway
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1518:Indian subcontinent
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2980:on 11 January 2012
2865:. 7 February 2020.
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