Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka: The Case of the Tamil Estate Workers

The most comprehensive monograph-length legal-historical study of how the 1948–49 Acts manufactured statelessness, tracing legislative intent, parliamentary debates, and subsequent bilateral negotiations. Essential primary reference for the de jure dimension of plantation Tamil disenfranchisement. **Source 4** **Title:** "Citizenship law, nationalism and the theft of enjoyment: a post-colonial narrative" **Author:** Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne **Publisher:** *Law Text Culture*, University of Wollongong **Year:** (undated; post-2003) **URL:** https://www.uowoajournals.org/ltc/article/id/489/ **Tier:** A (peer-reviewed journal) **Gloss:** Applies post-colonial theory to the Ceylon Citizenship Act, arguing that the disenfranchisement of 700,000 plantation Tamils was not a bureaucratic oversight but a racialised political project. Provides theoretical framing useful alongside empirical ana