Story: Sri Lankans
Page 4. External links and sources
More links and websites
An immigrant nation - from Sri Lanka with sorrow
Excerpts from a 1997 documentary profiling two recently arrived families from Sri Lanka, on the NZ On Screen website.
United Sri Lanka Association Inc
This website represents the views of the Sinhalese members of New Zealand’s Sri Lankan population.
More suggestions and sources
- ‘A community divided: civil war brings tragedy to NZ’s Sri Lankan community.’ Sunday Star-Times, 28 September 1986.
- Leckie, Jacqueline. ‘South Asians: old and new migrations.’ In Immigration and national identity in New Zealand: one people, two peoples, many peoples?, edited by Stuart William Greif. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1995.
- ‘Millennium bash old hat to Sri Lankans.’ New Zealand Herald, 19 April 1999.
- New Zealand: an immigrant nation. From Sri Lanka … with sorrow [videorecording]. Producer, Vincent Burke; director, Anna Cottrell. Wellington: Top Shelf Productions, 1994.
How to cite this page
Nancy Swarbrick, Sri Lankans, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/22465/sources (accessed 16 July 2026).
Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.