New Challenges for the Realisation of Migrants' Rights Following the Haiti 2010 Earthquake

Haitian Women on the Borderlands

Bibliographic Data

ID3817268
AuthorsBridget Wooding (Observatory on Caribbean Migration, Dominican Republic), Allison J Petrozziello (Observatory on Caribbean Migration, Dominican Republic), Allison Petrozziello (0000-0003-2976-0858, Observatory on Caribbean Migration, Dominican Republic)
Year2013
Volume32
Issue4
Pages407-420
Publication date2013-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.12073
OpenAlexW2162181539
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

Crossing the Dominican-Haitian border in greater numbers than previously, Haitian women and girls, many of whom have been forcibly displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, make multiple decisions about where to go and whom to trust. Thus they are in contact with informal scouts and other agents, while seeking employment as vendors in the frontier market, domestic workers in private homes, and sex workers in brothels in the Dominican Republic. This article argues that trafficking is but one problem along a spectrum of violence and human rights violations facing these women, requiring coordinated social interventions beyond law enforcement

Business · Criminology · Enforcement · Frontier · Political science · Realisation · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Law

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