Darlène Dubuisson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darlène Dubuisson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darlène |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubuisson |
| SIGNATURE | DUBUISSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico
In this research report, I explore how Black transit migrants in Tapachula, Mexico, use “kin-work”—the merger of labor and love—to sustain their lives against processes of hate and death. I specifically argue that love plays a crucial role in nurturing the kinships (whether official or unofficial) of Black transit migrants, allowing them to enable futures against “anti-Black immigration governmentality”—that is, the intersection of (im)migration …
Centering Race in Studies of Low-Wage Immigrant Labor
This review examines the historical and contemporary factors driving immigrant worker precarity and the central role of race in achieving worker justice. We build from the framework of racial capitalism and historicize the legacies of African enslavement and Indigenous dispossession, which have cemented an exclusionary economic system in the United States and globally. We consider how racism and colonial legacies create migrant displacement and s…
“There Is a Real Generational Problem in This Country”
Based on a series of life‐history interviews conducted between 2013 and 2018, this article examines the generational aspects of homecomings, or how location and temporality affect intellectual return and reintegration. The article specifically explores the returns of Haitian intellectual exiles (jenerasyon 86) and the young academic diaspora (jenn doktè) at two would‐be moments of social transformation in Haiti: post‐Duvalier (after 1986) and pos…
Teaching Haiti
Reviewed by: Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives ed. by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando Darlène Dubuisson Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives. Edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021. ISBN 1683402103. 270 pp. $95 hardcover, $28 paper. Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives is not only a pedagogical toolkit for university instructo…
Ethnography In-Sight and Sound
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico
In this research report, I explore how Black transit migrants in Tapachula, Mexico, use “kin-work”—the merger of labor and love—to sustain their lives against processes of hate and death. I specifically argue that love plays a crucial role in nurturing the kinships (whether official or unofficial) of Black transit migrants, allowing them to enable futures against “anti-Black immigration governmentality”—that is, the intersection of (im)migration …
Teaching Haiti
Reviewed by: Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives ed. by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando Darlène Dubuisson Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives. Edited by Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021. ISBN 1683402103. 270 pp. $95 hardcover, $28 paper. Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives is not only a pedagogical toolkit for university instructo…
Ethnography In-Sight and Sound
Centering Race in Studies of Low-Wage Immigrant Labor
This review examines the historical and contemporary factors driving immigrant worker precarity and the central role of race in achieving worker justice. We build from the framework of racial capitalism and historicize the legacies of African enslavement and Indigenous dispossession, which have cemented an exclusionary economic system in the United States and globally. We consider how racism and colonial legacies create migrant displacement and s…
“There Is a Real Generational Problem in This Country”
Based on a series of life‐history interviews conducted between 2013 and 2018, this article examines the generational aspects of homecomings, or how location and temporality affect intellectual return and reintegration. The article specifically explores the returns of Haitian intellectual exiles (jenerasyon 86) and the young academic diaspora (jenn doktè) at two would‐be moments of social transformation in Haiti: post‐Duvalier (after 1986) and pos…
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico
In this research report, I explore how Black transit migrants in Tapachula, Mexico, use “kin-work”—the merger of labor and love—to sustain their lives against processes of hate and death. I specifically argue that love plays a crucial role in nurturing the kinships (whether official or unofficial) of Black transit migrants, allowing them to enable futures against “anti-Black immigration governmentality”—that is, the intersection of (im)migration …
Sociology (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)