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Housing Property as a Major Dispute over Power and Allocation of Rights in Post-War Kosovo: A Legal Plurality Case?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Georgia Kretsi
Georgia Kretsi*
Affiliation:
Osteuropa-Institute, Freie Univ. Berlin, Garystr. 50, 14195. Email: kretsi@gmx.de
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While a large number of Kosovo Albanians before the war longed for international intervention in their province, after the “national victory” social and economic grievances put an end to the illusion of a “great” future in a “free” Kosovo. High unemployment rates as well as property and housing became the most vital issues for a majority of the Kosovar population. For minorities such as the Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, and Serbs, issues of security and future integration in an eventually independent, Albanian-dominated country were added to the general economic crisis and to the difficulties of repossessing properties lost as a result of the war.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , September 2007 , pp. 663 - 689
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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