"Existing on the Other Side of the Law?" The Mechanisms and Impact of Antihaitianismo on Citizenship in the Dominican Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4461860 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jermaine Young (0000-0003-0187-735X, Howard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-26 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic studies review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1881 • E-ISSN: 2576-2915 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/esr.2025.48.1.6 |
| OpenAlex | W4410493675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
This paper examines the phenomenon of antihaitianismo and its dangers in the Dominican Republic by exploring how racial discrimination is institutionalized through legal and extralegal frameworks, leading to the denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent. By analyzing recent legal reforms and state actions, this paper reveals how antihaitianismo operates as a mechanism of exclusion, creating a racialized category of noncitizenship. The study highlights the duality of law, showing how extralegal measures are used to perpetuate racial hierarchies and deny basic rights to the Haitian-descended Dominican population. Through a critical review of citizenship laws and policies across all three branches of government, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, this paper demonstrates how extralegality has been stretched to its limits and used to profoundly discriminate against the Dominico-Haitian community, leading to statelessness for families and individuals as well as consequent mass deportations. The paper aims to contribute to the growing understanding about extralegal machinations and their ability to create and foster discrimination and harm for distinct communities, while maintaining the status quo for everyone else
Citizenship · Criminology · Government (linguistics · Harm · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Population · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science · Statelessness · Status quo · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Law
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship
On the Social Foundations for Crimmigration
Upholding Birth Right Citizenship in the Dominican Republic
The social aftershocks of a migration crisis
Law and disorder in the postcolony
From Hidden Hand to Heavy Hand
Denationalization in the Dominican Republic
Cycles of judicial and executive power in irregular migration
States of Exception on the Mexico?U.S. Border
Violent crime and the expansion of executive power in Latin America
(Re)producing Statelessness via Indirect Gender Discrimination
The other side of the law
Las Vidas Negras Importan
States of exception as paradigms of government
When the exception becomes the rule
The Tribulations of Blackness
Legal Pluralism
Historical Forgetting and the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal
Not Just (Any) Body Can be a Citizen
Normalization and Legislative Exceptionalism
Racializing Crimmigration
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |