Deported "home" to Haiti: in Haiti, U.S. criminal deportees are regarded as vile thugs; the inflamed public frustration that in some areas has led to vigilantism, may have contributed to an over-readiness to blame Haitian Americans for crime

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    DeCesare,Donna (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1998
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    NACLA Report on the Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    32 : 6-10
    ISBN:
    1071-4839
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, United States, Haiti, Social conditions, Crime and criminals, HAITIANS, Deportation, Immigration policy, Immigration and naturalization service, and Youth and law
    Notes:
    Discusses the deportation of foreign-born youth with criminal convictions to Haiti, other Caribbean countries, and Central America, based on 1996 laws allowing the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to deny due process to non-citizens.

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