Dr. Y. A. Karunarathne
Senior Lecturer - Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts University of Colombo
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ABSTRACT. In this forum, we focus on precarious international migrant workers and examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in four middle-income economies in the Global South: Ghana, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Thailand. In this way we consider varying geographies of (im)mobilities, responses, and governance. During the global struggle to cope with the pandemic, the world witnessed that the quality of governance at multiple levels played a crucial role. In these uncertain times, it is imperative that awareness, prevention, and resilience improves. Collectively, the four essays reveal a multitude of challenges. We address important issues such as the relationship between sociocultural factors and digital pandemic governance, the need to improve services and support for female migrants, the complex issue of return migration, the specific challenges associated with sudden and temporary immobility, and the increasingly prevalent status of middle-income economies in the Global South as both sending and receiving countries. Keywords migrant workers, immobility, governance, remittances, gender, Global South.
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Andriesse, E., Kim, J., Thipakorn, S., Pham, T. N. Q., Karunarathne, A. Y., & Owusu, V. (2024). The forum on the COVID-19 pandemic and international migrant workers: Geographies of (im)mobility and governance challenges. Geographical Review, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2024.2387220
Publication year: 2024
Social Network Analysis approach on the Social relations of Sri Lanka Kaffir people
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Journal of Colomba Sasthreeya Sangrahaya, Vol. 1, Issue I. pp. 33-60.
Publication year: 2024
Impacts of Kalu River Estuary Changes on Nearby Coastal Zones from 2017 to 2020: An Integrated Analysis using GIS and DSAS
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SRI LANKA JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (SLJGEM), Volume I, Issue I, pp.1-8
Publication year: 2023
Credible evidences of Global warming vis-à-vis Global Climate Change impasses: A Critical Review
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SRI LANKA JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (SLJGEM), Vol.1, Issue I.
Publication year: 2023
Community Resilience to Global Climate Change-Related Disasters: A Systematic Literature Review
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Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, Vol. 5, No. 1, 53–75
Publication year: 2023
Building rural community resilience: The case of gem extraction in flood-affected areas of Sri Lanka
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The Extractive Industries and Society (SSCI); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101365
Publication year: 2023
Social Vulnerability Contours (SVCs) for disaster vulnerability and resilience mapping: A case study of flood disaster affected rural areas in Sri Lanka
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Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications, DOI: doi10.1142/S268998092350001X
Publication year: 2022
How do urban reciprocal support network legacies matter to improve the resiliency of urban informal livelihoods?
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Sustainable Cities and Society (SCIE); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103528
Publication year: 2022
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO MASS FLOODING EVENT OF 2017: A CASE OF SEVERELY INUNDATED LOCAL ADMIN AREAS IN KURUWITA DSD, SRI LANKA
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KALAM International Research Journal Faculty of Arts and Culture, 15(1), 2022.
Publication year: 2022
Importance of drainage density and stream network ordering schema of drainage basin; a micro catchment-based analysis
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Kalam, International Research Journal, Faculty of Arts and Culture,14(4), 2021. pp. 102-116.
Publication year: 2021
How Do Social Networks Have Become the “Panacea” or “Protective Firepower” of Flood Victims? A Case of Community Flood Disaster Management in Sri Lanka
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https://doi.org/10.52114/apjhad.998181 (Turkey University Journal)
Publication year: 2021
The geographies of the dynamic evolution of social networks for the flood disaster response and recovery
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Applied Geography, Volume 125, December 2020, 102274. (SSCI)
Publication year: 2020
Developing a multi-facet social vulnerability measure for flood disasters at the micro-level assessment
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 49, October 2020, 101679. (SCIE)
Publication year: 2020
Traditional social capital and socioeconomic networks in response to flood disaster: A case study of rural areas in Sri Lanka
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 41, December 2019, 101279. (SCIE)
Publication year: 2019
Estimating Hilly Areas Population Using a Dasymetric Mapping Approach: A Case of Sri Lanka’s Highest Mountain Range
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(4), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8040166 (SCIE)
Publication year: 2019
Social Policy Legacies and the Contemporary Development Trajectory of Sri Lanka
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Journal of South Asian Studies/Institute of Indian Studies; 24(1), pp. 57-95.
Publication year: 2018
Foreign Interventions in the Sri Lankan Civil War: *Implications for Internal Socio-economic and Geopolitical Issues
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Journal of South Asian Studies/Institute of Indian Studies, DOI 10.21587/jsas.2018.24.3.001, 24(3), pp. 1-42 (KCI)
Publication year: 2018
Optimal and safe site selection for the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management
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Journal of Geography, Seoul National University, 64, pp. 27-48.
Publication year: 2017
Changing Industrial Structure and their spatial distribution of Sri Lanka:
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Journal of Geography, Seoul National University, 61, pp.17- 44.
Publication year: 2016
New revolution of the discipline of Geography
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Publication year: 2009
Tsunami affected industries of Sri Lanka
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Publication year: 2005
Identification of erosion prone areas in Kukule watershed using Geographical Information Systems
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The First National Symposium on Geo-Informatics, 121-132
Publication year: 2004