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20 p., Haiti has concluded its latest election cycle, although it is still finalizing the results of a few legislative seats. The US provided 16 million dollars in election support through the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Like many of the previous Haitian elections, the recent process has been riddled with political tensions, violence, allegations of irregularities, and low voter turnout. Other issues include the destabilizing presence of former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the newly elected government's ability to handle the complex post-earthquake reconstruction process and its relationship with the donor community.
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9 p., The US has historically provided assistance to support development in Haiti. Over the last several years, Congress has attempted to promote Haiti's economic development through the use of trade preferences for Haitian products. In 2000, Congress extended preferences under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to allow for duty-free treatment of apparel through the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA). This report responds to a mandate in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, which requires GAO to review Earned Import Allowance Program (EIAP) annually and conduct an evaluation of the program.
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30 p., The Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act of 2010 amended the Earned Import Allowance Program (EIAP), reducing the qualifying fabric requirement from three to two; and the amended Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act (now HOPE II) also mandated GAO to review the effectiveness of the EIAP and to look for potential improvements. GAO examined (1) the extent to which the program has been used, (2) how US government agencies implemented it, and (3) how the program could be improved.
Belasco,Amy (Author), Else,Daniel H. (Author), Lindsay,Bruce R. (Author), Margesson,Rhoda (Author), Nakamura,Kennon H. (Author), Taft-Morales,Maureen (Author), and Tarnoff,Curt (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010-07-27
Published:
Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service
Location:
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86 p., Pages 46-64 pertain to the Haiti FY2010 supplemental proposal; 2.9 billion dollars for Haiti relief and reconstruction.
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Benjamin,Russell (Editor) and Hall,Gregory Otha (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Lanham, MD: University Press of America
Location:
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211 p., Argues that the colonialism beginning in the 15th century never ended, but rather developed different forms over time. The scope of their work examines eternal colonialism in both American and international contexts. Includes Brad Bullock and Sabita Manian's "Globalization's gendered consequences for the Caribbean."
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212 p., Analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas, with a focus on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular. The main argument is that democracy promotion is typically formulated to advance commercial, geopolitical and security objectives that conflict with a genuine commitment to democratic development. Includes chapter "Polyarchy at any cost in Haiti."
Dzidzienyo,Anani (Author) and Oboler,Suzanne (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Location:
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323 p, Contents: Flows and counterflows : Latinas/os, blackness, and racialization in hemispheric perspective / Suzanne Oboler and Anani Dzidzienyo -- A region in denial : racial discrimination and racism in Latin America / Ariel E. Dulitzky -- Afro-Ecuadorian responses to racism : between citizenship and corporatism / Carlos de la Torre -- The foreignness of racism : pride and prejudice among Peru's Limeños in the 1990s / Suzanne Oboler -- Bad boys and peaceful Garifuna : transnational encounters between racial stereotypes of Honduras and the United States (and their implications for the study of race in the Americas) / Mark Anderson -- Afro-Mexico : Blacks, indígenas, politics, and the greater diaspora / Bobby Vaughn -- The changing world of Brazilian race relations? / Anani Dzidzienyo -- Framing the discussion of African American-Latino relations : a review and analysis / John J. Betancur -- Neither white nor Black : the representation of racial identity among Puerto Ricans on the island and in the U.S. mainland / Jorge Duany -- Scripting race, finding place : African Americans, Afro-Cubans, and the diasporic imaginary in the United States / Nancy Raquel Mirabal -- Identity, power, and socioracial hierarchies among Haitian immigrants in Florida / Louis Herns Marcelin -- Interminority relations in legislative settings : the case of African Americans and Latinos / José E. Cruz -- African American and Latina/o cooperation in challenging racial profiling / Kevin R. Johnson -- Racial politics in multiethnic America : Black and Latina/o identities and coalitions / Mark Sawyer -- Racism in the Americas and the Latino scholar / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Witnessing history : an octogenarian reflects on fifty years of African American-Latino relations / Nelson Peery
Examines economic dependency of Caribbean nations on the US, consequences of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and likely effects of NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) on the Caribbean region.
Examines the sources of domestic political will for intervention, particularly the role of partisanship, ideology, and public opinion on Congressional members' willingness to support US intervention for humanitarian purposes. Analyzes several Congressional votes relevant to four episodes of US humanitarian intervention: Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Finds that public support for humanitarian intervention increases Congressional support and that other political demands, primarily partisanship and ideological distance from the president, often trump the normative exigencies of intervention.
Part of a special journal issue focusing on the role of the U.S. Foreign Service in Haiti., Offers 21 stories describing American Foreign Service Association experiences in disaster relief in Haiti.
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24 p., In December 2006, the 109th Congress passed the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 (HOPE I), which included special trade rules that give preferential access to US imports of Haitian apparel. With disappointing results, the 110th Congress responded by amending HOPE I with the Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2008 (HOPE II). After the devastating 2010 earthquake, the US Congress addressed the apparel industry's needs by amending the HOPE Act with the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act of 2010, which improves US market access for Haitian apparel exports.
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23 p., The Caribbean Basin has benefited from multiple preferential trade arrangements, the first being the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), passed by Congress in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 followed by the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) of 2000, which provides tariff preferences for imports of apparel products, and the Haiti HOPE Act of 2006 (amended in 2008 and 2010), which gives even more generous preferences to imports of Haitian apparel.
Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."
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560 p, Describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Using many previously unexamined sources, it goes beyond mere inter-ethnic polemics to lay out for the first time the scope of Jewish anti-Blackness in places such as Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam and the Caribbean. Readers will see that Jewish attitudes and behavior remained barely distinguishable from general European trends, hardly benign, but far less intense.
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16 p., The environmental, social, and political conditions in Haiti have long prompted congressional interest in US policy on Haitian migrants, particularly those attempting to reach the US by boat. Migrant interdiction and mandatory detention are key components of US policy toward Haitian migrants, but human rights advocates express concern that Haitians are not afforded the same treatment as other asylum seekers. The devastation caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti has led Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians in the US at the time of the earthquake. Tables, Figures.
