Introduction Colombo for decades, and urban migration has been increasing in recent years. Beginning in the 1970s, many Up-country Tamils moved to the North and East, searching for safety and community in Tamil-majority areas. Up-country Tamils outside of the Up-country have conflicted senses of home and belonging, which affects their political activities, as Anton Piyarathne and Periyasamy Muthulingam explore in this section. Conclusion This book does not claim to encompass the breadth of issues that concern many Up-country Tamils, nor the full range of perspectives on how to interpret and respond to them. Nevertheless, it marks a departure in the not insubstantial literature on the community. There is within it a conscious loosening of the identification of Up-country Tamils with Sri Lanka’s foremost agricultural export crop and with the plantation as a unit of production. The increased mobility of the community and their dispersal as well as settlement outside of plantation districts has de-homogenised them. This is welcome and overdue. Also, members of the community are themselves represented among the authors. No longer is it tenable for Up-country Tamils to be written about without also including their own activists, practitioners, and scholars. Forthcoming research on the UpCountry Tamils of Sri Lanka must move beyond traditional narratives and train a more dynamic and nuanced lens to chart the future of their journey on this island. xxi