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As the US completes its military withdrawal from Iraq, the Obama Administration's stated policy goals are to promote security, stability and prosperity in Iraq, help it emerge as a force for stability and moderation in the region, transition responsibility for security to the Ir…

This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project that marries cultural geography and literary criticism to reevaluate traditional notions of what has been described as displacement or diaspora by shifting focus onto emplacement and locality. Responding to the thematic preoccupa…

This dissertation is a discursive inquiry into the language Horn of Africa (HOA) youth use as they talk about their experiences. Study participants are 1.5 and second generation HOA youth, mainly from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, living in the Pacific Northwest and actively p…

This dissertation explores comparative representations of displacement, exile, and diaspora in twentieth-century writing by women. While numerous studies have addressed the particularities of modernist exile for male writers from Europe and the United States, far less has work h…

The decline of Public Value and the paramount importance of Judicial Review protection are in some cases a lifeline to those directly affected by contemporary regeneration projects throughout the UK that leave little or no consideration for the public in the areas targeted for r…

This study departs from existing scholarship by analysing and documenting nine cases of national 'success' to inform three primary objectives: (1) To catalogue cases of success for future reference; (2) To producing 'lessons' that may improve the effectiveness of interventions w…

This thesis is a largely ethnographic analysis of the life histories of six bilingual, second generation settlers in Britain, from different language communities. All have been academically successful within the English educational system ie all possess at least a first degree f…

Work which takes from elsewhere forms an important thread in European art music. There is a long tradition of music which variously borrows, thieves, pastiches, plagiarises, ironically ‘retakes’, hoaxes, impersonates and appropriates. The music I have written for Off the edge, w…

This research investigates the experience of Afghan refugees in Iran from 1980 to 2001. It considers how their displacement influenced their strategies of adaptation and survival, and altered their concepts of home and space, identity and sense of belonging, as well as their exp…

The coming to voice of the African woman is a topic of increasing importance in francophone African literary studies. Even more significant are the discourses that portray women who develop new subjectivities through the experience of displacement and while living in Europe. Thi…

This dissertation is a study of the gender relations of displacement that are the result of the complex interplay between militarized conflict and development-induced displacement in southern Sudan. The dissertation specifically examines the shifts in gender perceptions and role…

This dissertation is an ethnography about the making of communal spaces among southern (or Christian, African-oriented) Sudanese displaced in Muslim Arab Cairo, Egypt. Exploring the nature of refugee domains, this dissertation features portraits of refugee communal spaces and re…

Refugees form a growing and complex concern for countries around the world particularly as their numbers and status remain liminal for decades creating destabilizing conditions within their host countries. This dissertation sought to uncover the ways in which policies towards re…

The issue of development-induced displacement (DID) has become one of the glaring social problems of recent times. This study investigated the coping and adaptive strategies of displaced individuals and households as a result of a real estate development project in Yeka Tefo, a …

This dissertation aims to illuminate the changing nature of the Kurdish contention in Turkey since the 1990s as well as its ubiquitous dissemination among the Kurdish grassroots through examining the repercussions of political violence and the relocation of the grassroots from r…

This dissertation undertakes a transnational analysis of conflict-induced displacement of Kurds from Turkey, by examining both their internal displacement within Turkey, as well as their external displacement to Europe as refugees. It conceptualizes displacement as a form of sta…

This dissertation examines two distinct but interrelated processes of displacement experienced by the evictees of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, based on fieldwork (2004–2005) in the Tambacounda region of South-Eastern Senegal. While the first process concerns centralized mass …

This study examines the trope of women's journey and the various kinds of movement and travel it includes employed and represented by three contemporary Arab women literary writers, Ghada Samman, Ahdaf Soueif, and Leila Aboulela in their literary narratives as well as travelogue…

In 2005, approximately 850 families from the historic village of El Gourna, Egypt were relocated to a new village. The relocation was part of a government initiative to protect ancient records and artifacts from Egypt's Middle Kingdom contained in the Tombs of the Nobles that la…

This thesis examines how the gentrification of Denver over the last decade has unfolded across the city’s preexisting geography of class and race. Specifically, how systemic racial discrimination positioned certain neighborhoods as economically and politically vulnerable to gent…