This article discusses the current migration policies in the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries. It describes how the 2013 migration crisis and the following Constitutional Court ruling set new requirements for acquiring Dominican citizenship. This caused an international outcry because the verdict retroactively denied Dominican nationality to anyone born after 1929 who did not have at least one parent of Dominican blood, even if their births were recorded in the civil ministry.

Nous basant sur une recherche ethnographique réalisée à Montréal, nous mettrons en lumière l’articulation entre les religions catholique et vaudou à partir d’une controverse ayant lieu au sein d’une mission catholique haïtienne montréalaise quant à la représentation pictographique de la Madone. Après un bref survol de l’immigration haïtienne à Montréal, sera abordée la multiplication des champs religieux en contexte migratoire à travers le concept de syncrétisme.

Cette recherche vise à mieux comprendre les stratégies de gestion du risque d’infection au VIH adoptées par les jeunes femmes d’origine haïtienne. Elle fait suite à une étude épidémiologique réalisée entre 1994 et 1996 auprès de 5039 Montréalais d’origine haïtienne (Adrien et al., 1999). Dans cette étude, la pré- valence de l’infection au VIH s’élevait à 1,3 % pour l’ensemble de l’échantillon. On observait une différence importante entre la prévalence chez les personnes récemment arrivées (2,2 %) et celles appartenant à la seconde génération d’immigrants (0,1%).

This article explores gendered patterns of migration & transnationalism in Haiti. A combination of factors has prompted extensive rural-urban migration & emigration over the last three decades: violence, repression, economic collapse, & the implementation of neoliberal reforms have left many Haitians with few options other than to seek a new life elsewhere. Although many Haitians abroad naturalize & take citizenship in host countries, emigration does not mean that ties to their homeland are severed.

The past few decades have seen an explosion of writing by women from the Caribbean. From Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Trinidad - women of African, European, and mixed ancestry have explored and manipulated their complex matrix: of languages and subtle linguistic codes; of folk traditions and formal English schooling; of vital politics and tormented histories; of intoxicating natural beauty and devastating poverty. They have written of mothertongues and motherlands, of exile, of the boundaries of bodies, of the politics of owning and not owning themselves.

This project is a critical examination of Haitian migration and displacement in North America that engages both a theoretical and literary analysis of exile and diaspora as consequences of migration and displacement. Grounded in literary criticism, this dissertation argues that Haitian writers in North America inscribe migration by troping exile and diaspora to speak of the predicament of displaced migratory subjects and their inevitable crossings of places, landscapes, borders, cultures, and nations.

Understanding exile as flight from political persecution or forms of oppression that single out women, Myriam J. A. Chancy concentrates on diasporic writers and filmmakers who depict the vulnerability of women to poverty and exploitation in their homelands and their search for safe refuge. These Afro-Caribbean feminists probe the complex issues of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class that limit women’s lives.

L’analyse de trois récits de vie de femmes haïtiennes émigrant en Martinique et ayant recours aux sexualités transactionnelles (ST) aide à comprendre le rôle de la sexualité dans les stratégies de « normalisation » administrative et sociale des femmes les plus précaires. Chacun des récits illustre un modèle de ST : la prostitution au sens strict, le mariage comme continuité du « plaçage » existant en Haïti et les ST impliquant un partenaire ressource (voire un multipartenariat sériel).