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Western Diaspora

United Kingdom · London

ஐக்கிய இராச்சியம் · லண்டன்

United Kingdom · Post-1983 refugee migration

Largest Western Tamil concentration. Post-WWII labour migration + post-1983 Sri Lankan civil war refugee migration. TLTE's operating jurisdiction. Primary policy-leverage surface via UK APPG for Tamils and Westminster Hansard.

Population — as cited

Tamil community estimates ~300,000–400,000 (Sri Lankan + Tamil Nadu origins)
Office for National Statistics — Census 2021 (E&W); Tamil under 'Other Asian' · 2021

ONS does not directly disaggregate Tamil. Community estimates carry methodological uncertainty.

TLTE never aggregates a "Tamil population" or "Tamil GDP" figure. Numbers are cited verbatim from the named source.

Memory custodians

  • ·SOAS Digital Collections — Tamil (primary UK academic Tamil archive)
  • ·British Library EAP Programme (all Tamil EAP codes held at BL)

Tamil-language press / cultural bodies

  • · Tamil Guardian (UK-based; primary English-language Tamil diaspora outlet)

Outlet names only. Never journalist names. See the Press Freedom Desk for protection rationale.

Remittance corridor

UK → Sri Lanka · India (KNOMAD bilateral)

Tamil-specific corridors do not exist in any public dataset. Country-pair via World Bank KNOMAD is the available proxy.

Anchor citations

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