Repatriations of Haitians in the Dominican Republic have become an almost daily routine. Indeed Dominican authorities almost constantly expel hundreds of Haitians illegally living in the Dominican Republic. Haitian authorities seem to accept as a fait accompli the onslaught on our territory nationals of Haiti with their Dominican counterparts, regardless of taking long-term measures to stop the bleeding of the labor national work as well as the brain drain to benefit our bordering neighbors. Notwithstanding the ill-treatment Dominicans inflict our brothers, repressed people manage to return a month later to where they are to be expelled. Since, in the absence of a long-term strategy to frame the returnees and give them hope for a decent life in their country, crossing to the other side of the border continues to attract good workers sentenced to unemployment in their own countries.
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294 p., Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures, and new challenges for HIV prevention. In fluid prose, Padilla analyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as “normal” heterosexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends.
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381 p., There is a total of four volumes in the Trujillo and Haiti series. Volume 1: 1930-1937; volume 2:1937-1938; volume 3:1939-1946; and volume 4: 1946-1957.
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.;
Torres-Saillant,Silvio (Editor), Hernandez,Ramona (Editor), and Jimenez,Blas R. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish or English
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Santo Domingo: Manatí: Librería La Trinitaria
Location:
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Proceedings from two conferences held in New York and Santo Domingo in 2001., 540 p, Contents: Prefacio / Silvio Torres-Saillant ... [et al.] -- Introducción / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Memoria de la diversidad perdida: Reflexiones iniciales -- PARTE I. MIGRACIÓN E IDENTIDAD CAMBIANTE -- Los cocolos: la identidad labrada / Norberto James Rawlings -- La herencia china: una meditación / Mu-Kien Adriana Sang -- Fobias nacionalistas y los domínico-haitianos / Sonia Pierre -- La herencia árabe / Orlando Inoa -- Domínico-puertorriqueños en el "país de cinco pisos" / Miguel Cordero Ortiz -- La migración dominicana en España / Bernarda Jiménez Clemente -- La dominicanidad itinerante / Anthony R. Stevens-Acevedo -- Being Dominican in Holland / Lisa Boersen -- Antelación I: el drama escolar / Milagros Ortiz Bosch -- PARTE II. RAZA, CLASE E INSTITUCIONES -- Evolución reciente de la protesta social / Roberto Cassá -- Cultura popular y discurso sobre la dominicanidad / Diógenes Céspedes -- La diversidad en la educaión superior / Rafael Toribio -- Second-generation Dominicans in New York City high schools / Nancy López -- Poemas / Blas R. Jiménez -- Religión y diversidad / Marcos Villamán -- La iglesia patriarcal dominicana / Sara Pérez -- Antelación II: el mundo de los libros / Virtudes Uribe -- PARTE III. SEXUALIDAD, GÉNERO Y NACIÓN -- Las mujeres en el ensayo del Caribe hispano / Daisy Cocco de Filippis -- Tres imágenes de lo femenino en el siglo XIX y el feminismo pionero / Ramonina Brea -- Las mujeres y otros subordinados en el espacio público nacional / Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco -- Modelo familiar y cuerpo femenino / Denise Paiewonsky -- Continuidad y cambios sociopolíticos de la mujer dominicana / Isis Duarte -- Homogeneidad, proyecto de nación y homofobia / Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso -- Primero Puta que Pájara: sexuality and Dominicanness / Dulce Reyes Bonilla -- Proyección I: conocimiento, confianza y convivencia / Tomas Ybarra Frausto -- PARTE IV. LA DIFERENCIA Y EL RECLAMO CIUDADANO -- Race, nation, and Dominican Nationalist discourse / Elka Scheker Mendoza -- Emigración, politíca pública y gobierno en Puerto Rico / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez -- Diasporic lobbying in American politics / Michel S. Laguerre -- The perspective of African diaspora studies / James de Jongh -- Between the nation and the diaspora: migration to and from Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany -- La "otra isla" de New York y la caribeñidad a la intemperie / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- Lista de Washington Hieghts / Josefina Báez -- Proyección II: entre lo homogéneo y lo heterogéneo / Franklin Franco Pichardo -- Epílogo: Dominicanos de afuera, aquí y allá / Ramona Hernández.
