{"id":210,"date":"2013-05-19T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/carleton.ca\/install\/?p=210"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:28:53","slug":"dangerous-game-of-diaspora-politics-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/2013\/dangerous-game-of-diaspora-politics-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous game of \u2018diaspora politics\u2019 is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dangerous game of \u2018diaspora politics\u2019 is here to stay\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Thestar.com columnist Natalie Brender recently argued that Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka this November is because of that country\u2019s deteriorating human rights and governance record. Harper\u2019s purpose, she claims, is \u201cto convey principled condemnation of what\u2019s happening to human rights and democracy in Sri Lanka\u201d in a challenge to our claim that this is more obviously pandering to the Tamil diaspora in order to win votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/1436.pdf\">Dangerous game of \u2018diaspora politics\u2019 is here to stay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thestar.com columnist Natalie Brender recently argued that Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s decision to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka this November is because of that country\u2019s deteriorating human rights and governance record. Harper\u2019s purpose, she claims, is \u201cto convey principled condemnation of what\u2019s happening to human rights and democracy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recent-reports"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}