Pour bien comprendre les forces populaires dans l’État louverturien d’Haïti, il demeure primordial d’analyser les circonstances historiques qui ont permis son édification. Une analyse aussi détaillée permet de comprendre davantage l’indépendance d’Haïti ainsi que la lutte pour la préservation de l’émancipation générale. (Résumé par Mouka)
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This study examines the trajectory of rural women’s labor in the wake of post-earthquake land appropriations in Haiti. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted between 2010 and 2013, it explores gendered access to land in Haiti in both historical and contemporary contexts, paying attention to the nature of rural gender relations and how they influence women’s access to land and their roles in petty commerce. The study describes the stratification of rural market women, their lived experience, and how losing land access will affect their traditional roles as market women.
In Haiti, two primary pathways to land ownership are through the purchase of land and through inheritance. In terms of inheritance, intestate law treats daughters and sons equally with respect to real property. Despite the formal law, we find that women are relatively less tenure secure on their inherited land than men. In contrast, men and women share similar perceptions of tenure security on purchased land. These differences become manifest in conservation investment activities: tree planting, fallowing, and terracing.
Entre juin et août 2020, l'Institut Interuniversitaire de Recherche et de Développement (INURED) a mené une étude exploratoire à méthodologie mixte concernant l'impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les familles en Haïti. Ce rapport examine les impacts économiques, les perturbations en matière de travail et d'éducation, et les divers effets de la pandémie sur les ménages urbains et ruraux d'Haïti, selon les catégories sociales et le sexe.
In 2013 the Limonade Women’s Association for the Development of Agricultural and Craft Production (AFLIDEPA) in Haiti unveiled its transformation center and seed bank. Invoking the Black radical konbit tradition, the organization declared its commitment to food sovereignty and called on its fanm djanm (valiant women) to contribute to the development of their home(land).
Gender is deemed a social construct and is commonly overlooked in economic conversations (Padgett and Warnecke 2011). However, there are critical intersections between gender and economic maturation. Additionally, gender relations in Haiti demote women to the positionality of the “most marginalized” in the country with the fewest liberties yet the greatest socio-economic responsibilities. Thus, rural women are disproportionately affected by most disparities, inclusive of the economic implications in Haiti.
The paper discusses the current patterns of sexual unions in rural Haiti. After reviewing the historical and contemporary factors influencing the relatively low proportions of rural women legally married, an approach to categorizing Haitian unions using culturally meaningful categories is presented. Drawing on data from the 1977 Haitian Fertility Survey Pretest, collected on 747 rural women, the paper analyzes current union status and age at first union, and associated socioeconomic background factors.
The purpose of this study was to further knowledge of health care seeking behavior among pregnant women in rural Haiti. Eighty-two pregnant women were interviewed to assess care seeking behaviors during pregnancy, satisfaction with services, reliance on social networks, and management of pregnancy-related illness. Twenty-five percent reported not seeking care in the formal health sector for a pregnancy-related illness; 32% delayed seeking care.
This text explores the dynamics and complexities within familial groups in rural areas of Northern Haiti. Simpson states that the bonds within these families are not only relational but also based on participation in agricultural labour as well as religious practices. It discusses salient features of sexual and familial institutions in Northern Haiti. In addition to families established through legally recognized civil or ecclesiastic ceremonies, Simpson refers to a socially approved sexual and economic relationship between a man and a woman he calls placée.
Objective: To examine the association between violence experienced by pregnant Haitian women in the previous 6 months and pregnancy-related symptom distress. Methods: A total of 200 women seeking prenatal care at community health dispensaries in the Artibonite Valley were interviewed. Results: Over 4 in 10 women (44.0%) reported that they had experienced violence in the 6 months prior to interview; 77.8% of these women reported that the violence was perpetrated by an intimate partner.