...Chamara Senaratna Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe hitherto unexplored issues related to sexual abuse of left-behind children of migrant women in Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach – This qualitative study was conducted in high labour-sending districts. Focus group...

...Harriet Calvert Purpose This article is a conceptual paper, based on psychoanalytic understanding of a society at war, and the author attempts to deliver psychoanalytically inspired training for psychosocial workers in Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach The paper starts with a description...

...Rachel Tribe; Harriet Calvert Purpose Sri Lanka was subject to a civil war of almost 30 years' duration which was won militarily by the Sri Lankan army in May 2009. Sri Lanka was also seriously affected by the Asian tsunami in December 2004 which affected three‐quarters of the country's coastline...