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Diaspora Economic Web

புலம்பெயர் பொருளியல் வலை — சான்று மேசை

A citation-only map of the global Tamil economic web — diaspora chambers, remittance corridors, cross-community business links inside Sri Lanka, Western policy levers and the sanctions architecture that already exists. No individual is named. No "Tamil GDP" is published. Structure only.

Now · Aarambam

A structural map. Public bodies, public corridors, public sanctions regimes. World Bank KNOMAD and Central Bank of Sri Lanka data anchor every number we cite.

Becoming · Nilaiththanmai

An honest economic atlas of the diaspora and its host states — used to brief Western parliaments and sanctions offices, not to coerce any Tamil household.

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APG Mutual Evaluation — citation-only template the desk uses when feeding structural observations into the FATF/APG process.

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Honesty index · remittance flow

World Bank KNOMAD
≈ $5.6–6B / yr

Inward worker remittance to Sri Lanka (recent reporting years).

Share to N-E
Not disaggregated

CBSL does not publish district-level destination data. That gap is itself a finding.

Local capture pattern
Militarised economy

Adayaalam, PEARL and ICG describe military-run businesses absorbing local economic base.

Numbers come from World Bank / Central Bank of Sri Lanka only. We do not aggregate "diaspora wealth" of our own.

Diaspora chambers & business associations

  • Canadian Tamil Chamber of Commerce

    Toronto-based, est. 1994. Largest formally-incorporated diaspora chamber.

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  • British Tamils Chamber of Commerce

    UK-incorporated, parliamentary engagement track.

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  • Australian Tamil Chamber of Commerce

    Sydney / Melbourne nodes.

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  • USTPAC (US Tamil PAC, business advocacy arm)

    Washington DC, policy-facing.

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Tier-A data anchors

  • Tier A
    World Bank KNOMAD

    Gold-grade remittance statistics, country-level CSV.

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  • Tier A
    Central Bank of Sri Lanka — worker remittances

    Monthly remittance data by source country (UK, Italy, Canada, France, Australia visible).

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  • Tier A
    IMF Article IV consultation — Sri Lanka

    Standing macro reference for foreign-exchange dependency on diaspora flows.

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  • Tier A
    ICG — Sri Lanka: The Tamil Diaspora and Politics

    Original analytical reference for diaspora→homeland flow.

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Cross-community business links inside Sri Lanka

The N-E economy does not exist in isolation. Eastern Muslim trade, Up-country plantation labour and multi-faith civic networks are part of the same economic geometry. We cite them because the truth requires it.

  • Eastern Province Muslim Chamber of Commerce
    Ampara / Batticaloa / Trincomalee — natural cross-community business partner.
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  • Up-country (Malaiyaha) Tamil estate-sector cooperatives
    Tea estate worker cooperatives and savings groups.
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  • Inter Religious Alliance for National Reconciliation
    Multi-faith clergy alliances — cited where they back economic justice positions.
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Western policy levers

  • UK APPG for Tamils

    Westminster all-party group; standing Sri Lanka policy lever.

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  • Canadian Tamil Congress / Caucus

    Liaison with Canadian federal parties.

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  • EU Tamil Coordinating Committees

    Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam.

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  • US Tamil congressional caucus tracking

    Bipartisan engagement on SL accountability.

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Sanctions architecture (already exists)

We do not call for sanctions on this site. We point to the regimes that exist. Whether they have been used is itself an evidentiary record.

  • OFSI (UK)

    UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation — consolidated list, publicly searchable.

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  • OFAC (US)

    US Treasury SDN list — public, searchable.

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  • UK Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020

    Magnitsky-style regime; covers individual culpability.

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  • EU restrictive measures map

    Brussels-published, machine-readable.

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What this desk will never do

  • ·Never publishes the name of an individual diaspora business owner on this site.
  • ·Never publishes trade-secret, supplier, customer or invoice data.
  • ·Never frames the diaspora as obligated to give — TLTE is non-coercive.
  • ·Never aggregates a 'Tamil GDP' or 'total diaspora wealth' figure — those numbers are political weapons in the wrong hands.
  • ·Never accepts business intake. This desk maps published, public structure only.

Anchor sources

Stable citation IDs in the tlte-cite: namespace. Each link resolves to a permanent record at docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug> with title, publisher, archive URL, and reuse guidance.

Tier A — primary
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