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2. International migration and social policy underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ondetti,Gabriel (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 2012
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Global Social Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(1) : 45-66
- Notes:
- Argues that the underdevelopment of Dominican social policies reflects the political impact of international migration flows, including both Dominican emigration to the United States and the immigration into the Dominican Republic from neighboring Haiti. These flows have inhibited the development of progressive political actors, including the partisan left and organized labor, and facilitated the adoption of an economic production model that erects additional obstacles to the expansion of the country's social policies.
3. Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Inter-Caribbean Exile, Creolization, and Repetitive History in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Compère Général Soleil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Munro,Martin (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Fall 2005
- Published:
- Conway, AR: University of Central Arkansas
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Caribbean Literatures
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(1) : 163-174
- Notes:
- The work of Haitian author Jacques Stephen Alexis is replete with examples of characters caught in the dilemmas of exile. The author focuses on Alexis's characters who go through a "true" expatriation, a movement out of Haiti and into another country, and considers how the various experiences of expatriation are represented, as well as how the presence of the Haitian exiles impacts the host country. Taking examples from Alexis's novel Compère Général Soleil, Monro argues that the Haitian exiles unwittingly, though inevitably, disrupt the illusion of oneness of national identity and culture and become a subversive force, creolizing culture in the place of exile, the Dominican Republic. This cultural creolization in turn is a threat to the monocultural, totalizing political discourses of the host country, it is argued.;
4. The impact of the Haiti earthquake on Haitian immigration to the Dominican Republic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wooding,Bridget (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2010
- Published:
- Spain: Universidad de Salamanca
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- America Latina Hoy
- Journal Title Details:
- 56 : 111-129
- Notes:
- When the earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, the forcibly displaced on and off the island were the object of emergency planning, but so too were the host populations in Haiti and the neighbouring Dominican Republic. This article seeks to examine the emergency response to the earthquake and ongoing challenges through the lens of critical mobilities, with special reference to forced migration island-wide. Who (men, women, boys and girls) is able to move, how, where, for how long and through which networks? What is the legal framework, if any, governing these movements? Who wants visibility and who prefers to move 'incognito', in the context, for example, of ambiguous migration policies in the Dominican Republic towards impoverished Haitian immigrants?