ABSTRACT This article explores identity construction among second-generation Tamils in Germany, focusing on young adults. Rogers Brubaker’s groupism framework helps us to understand how the process of Tamil identity formation in diasporic contexts has been shaped by the Tamil organisation The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). After its defeat in 2009, members of the Tamil diaspora were forced to find new strategies to relate to the LTTE and ‘being Tamil’. The study illustrates how second-generation Tamils engage with Tamil identity: internalising dominant narratives, negotiating with first-generation perspectives, forging independent paths, distancing from the first generation, or remaining silent on LTTE. Through empirical insights, it elucidates the intricate interplay between generational identity construction and the reformation of the Tamil community. Based on in-depth empirical insights, this paper shows how the identity constructions of the different generations of the Tamil community and the re-construction of the community itself are entangled processes.