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Research Article

“We are here, but our hearts are in Haiti”: temporal and racialized emotive existences of ethnically identified Haitian Americans

Pages 427-445 | Received 11 Jan 2022, Accepted 26 Sep 2023, Published online: 05 Nov 2023

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