In Someone Else''s Country - Anti-Haitian Racism and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are "in someone else's country."

Childers describes how nations like the Dominican Republic create "stateless" second-class citizens through targeted documentation policies. She also carefully discusses the critical gaps between policy and practice while excavating the complex connections between racism and labor systems. Her vivid ethnography profiles dozens of Haitian immigrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent and connects their compelling individual experiences with broader global and contemporary discussions about race, immigration, citizenship, and statelessness while highlighting examples of collective resistance.

A propos de l'auteur

Trenita Brookshire Childers is a health care policy researcher at the American Institutes of Research. Previously, Dr. Childers was a NRSA postdoctoral research fellow funded by the National Institutes of Health at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNCChapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University in 2017. Dr. Childers has received numerous fellowships to support this research including a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and a Fulbright scholarship.

Résumé

In Someone Else’s Country is a groundbreaking work that details the current situation of racial profiling in Caribbean countries where certain citizens are denied any documentation to become a citizen of the country they were born and raised in.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Trenita Childers, Trenita Brookshire Childers
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781538131015
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3101-5
• Pages: 194
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Ethnic Studies, Entwicklungsländer, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Dominican Republic, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Development economics and emerging economies