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This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Iraqi diasporic community in the UK. It is based on two years of fieldwork research I conducted there between 2006–2008. I approach the formation of the diasporic community in light of utopian visions of a past colored by colonia…

This dissertation explores literature from the Pied-Noir community from 1962 to present and examines the written recreation of Algeria in a postcolonial context. The majority of Pieds-Noirs, formerly the French citizens of Algeria or Français d Algérie, left Algeria upon its ind…

This dissertation argues that solving the internal displacement problem is crucial for building peace, and any solution to the problem of internal displacement must include institutionalized property rights for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Granting property rights to IDP…

The present work analyzes the return—both the physical return and anticipated physical return—to the homeland after living in exile, the act of remembering caused by this process, and the metareflective role that the genre of autofiction plays in this interaction. The dissertati…