Borders, buscones, brothels, and bi-national markets

Haitian women negotiate how to get through

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ID4936931
AuthorsAllison J Petrozziello, Allison Petrozziello (0000-0003-2976-0858, Centro para la Observación Migratoria y el Desarrollo en el Caribe, Dominican Republic, corresponding author), Bridget Wooding (Centro para la Observación Migratoria y el Desarrollo en el Caribe, Dominican Republic, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume25
Issue2
Pages183-205
Publication date2013-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0921374013498141
OpenAlexW2081894549
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

The 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak in Haiti have given a push to women's migration to the Dominican Republic, and risk of being trafficked. Employing a feminist ethnographic approach, this case study examines the experiences of Haitian women and girls in the Dominican border town of Comendador, Elías Piña, to understand the choices and calculated risks they take in order to "get through." The authors situate trafficking within a spectrum of violence against women along a border marked by radically asymmetrical power relations, and call for coordinated social interventions beyond law enforcement that guarantee effective protection in the cross-border context

Business · Criminology · Enforcement · Ethnography · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology

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