Frontera y movilidad migratoria dominico-haitiana - Dominican-Haitian Border, Mobility and Migration

The presentation will explore the challenges of analyzing the present-day social and economic context in the Dominican Republic without considering the contentious political context at the Haitian-Dominican border and with Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic (DR).  Haitian immigrants in the DR historically provided labor as cane cutters for the Dominican sugar industry, but today they are more urban, younger, and female. They bring new occupational skills to contribute to both the Haitian and Dominican economies.  Consequently, after a century of Haitian migration to the DR, there are important questions about the identity of children of Haitians born in the Dominican Republic.  Are they Haitian or culturally Dominican?  Such questions and others have implications for what would happen to the Dominican society and economy without Haitians.

Presentation in Spanish with English interpretation 

Professor Jose Ricardo Santos Ramírez received a Ph.D. in Cultural Sociology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santiago, Dominican Republic. He also holds a degree in theological studies from the Santo Inacio Institute of Bello Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Lincoln Park Campus, Levan 405 2322 N. Kenmore

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