This thesis examines issues of exile, identity, and citizenship through the global qualities of the local, hybrid setting of New Orleans in Alice Dunbar-Nelsons short stories, Edouard and The Pearl in the Oyster, published in Hampton Institutes periodical, the Southern Workman. I argue that Dunbar-Nelson adopts elements of the migration narrative in her Creole fiction to explore these themes within communities of color in a post-Reconstruction America. Additionally, I place Dunbar-Nelsons work in conversation with the thematically similar works across a range of genres of her black, white, and Indigenous contemporaries also publishing in the Southern Workman to demonstrate the importance of the unique multicultural, multiracial, and multinational readership and contributor base the periodical attracted.