1,201
Views
11
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Cholera control and anti-Haitian stigma in the Dominican Republic: from migration policy to lived experience

, , , , , & show all
Pages 123-141 | Received 21 Feb 2016, Accepted 19 Jun 2017, Published online: 23 Oct 2017

References

  • Abiu Lopez, E. 2012. “Haitian migrants must get Dominican work permits.” Bloomberg Business, June 11. Accessed 29 September 2015. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9VB3S580.htm
  • Ahmed, A. 2015. “Forced to flee Dominican Republic for Haiti, migrants land in limbo.” New York Times, December 15. Accessed 2 January 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/americas/fearful-haitian-migrants-flee-dominican-republic-for-camps.html
  • Amnesty International. 2011. “Dominican Republic: Amnesty International Calls the Dominican Republic to Stop Forcible Deportation of Haitians,” Press Release, January 7. Accessed 27 August 2017. https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/dominican-republic-amnesty-international-calls-the-dominican-republic-to-stop-forcible-deportation-of-haitians/
  • Andújar, C. 2015. La presencia negra en Santo Domingo. Santo Domingo: Letra Gráfica.
  • Archibold, R. 2011. “As Refugees from Haiti Linger, Dominicans' Good Will Fades.” New York Times, 20 August. Accessed 27 August 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/americas/31haitians.html.
  • Baumann, G. 2004. “Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Structural Approach.” In Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Structural Approach, edited by G. Baumann and A. Gingrich. New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Bourgois, P. 1988. “Conjugated Oppression: Class and Ethnicity Among Guaymi and Kuna Banana Plantation Workers.” American Ethnologist 15 (2): 328–348.
  • Briggs, C. 2001. “Modernity, Cultural Reasoning, and the Institutionalization of Social Inequality: Racializing Death in a Venezuelan Cholera Epidemic.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 43 (4): 665–700.
  • Briggs, C. 2003. Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Briggs, C., and C. Mantini-Briggs. 2003. Stories in the Time of Cholera. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Briggs, C., and M. Nichter. 2009. “Biocommunicability and the Biopolitics of Pandemic Threats.” Medical Anthropology 28 (3): 189–198.
  • Brodzinsky, S. 2015. “Man lynched in Dominican Republic as tensions run high.” Guardian, February 12. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/dominican-republic-lynching-haiti-fears-human-rights
  • Congreso Nacional. 2011. Decreto 631-11: Reglamento de Aplicacion de la Ley General de la Migracion No. 285-04.
  • Corten, A., I. Duarte, C. Soto, and V. Fridman. 1995. “Five Hundred Thousand Haitians in the Dominican Republic.” Latin American Perspectives 22 (3): 94–110.
  • Derby, L. 1994. “Haitians, Magic and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 1900–1937.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 36 (488–526): 502.
  • Douglas, M. [1966] 2001. Purity and Danger. New York: Taylor and Francis e-Library, Taylor and Francis Group.
  • Fassin, D. 2001. “The Biopolitics of Otherness: Undocumented Foreigners and Racial Discrimination in French Public Debate.” Anthropology Today 17 (1): 3–7.
  • Fassin, D. 2011. “Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times.” Annual Review of Anthropology 40: 213–226.
  • Hatzenbuehler, M., A. Bellatore, Y. Lee, B. Finch, P. Muennig, and K. Fiscella. 2014. “Structural Stigma and All-cause Mortality in Sexual Minority Populations.” Social Science and Medicine 103 (33–41).
  • Hoetink, H. 2000. “The Dominican Republic in the Twentieth Century: Notes on Mobility and Stratification.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 74 (3/4): 209–233.
  • Holmes, S. 2006. “An Ethnographic Study of the Social Context of Migrant Health in the United States.” PLoS Medicine 3 (10): 1776–1793.
  • Holmes, S. 2011. “Structural Vulnerability and Hierarchies of Ethnicity and Citizenship on the Farm.” Medical Anthropology 30 (4): 425–449.
  • IMPRS (International Max Planck Research School). 2013. Detailed Research Statement. Berlin, Germany: International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies. Accessed 3 November 2016. https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/research-schools/imprs-mems/research/research-statement
  • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 2015. “Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic.” Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, December 31. Accessed 27 August 2017. http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/reports/pdfs/dominicanrepublic-2015.pdf.
  • Kaiser, B., H. Keys, J. Foster, and B. Kohrt. 2015. “Social Stressors, Social Support, and Mental Health Among Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic.” Pan-American Journal of Public Health 38 (2): 157–162.
  • Keys, H., B. Kaiser, J. Foster, R. Burgos, and B. Kohrt. 2015. “Perceived Discrimination, Humiliation, and Mental Health: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic.” Ethnicity and Health 20 (3): 219–240.
  • Kleinman, A., and A. Hall-Clifford. 2009. “Stigma: A Social, Cultural, and Moral Process.” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63 (6): 418–419.
  • Lund, A., H. Keys, S. Leventhal, J. Foster, and M. Freeman. 2015. “Prevalence of Cholera Risk Factors Between Migrant Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic.” Pan-American Journal of Public Health 37 (3): 125–132.
  • Leventhal, S. 2013. “A Gap between Ideals and Reality: The Right to Health and the Inaccessibility of Healthcare for Haitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic.” Emory International Law Review 27 (2): 1249–1289.
  • Markel, H. 1997. Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Martinez, S. 1999. “From Hidden Hand to Heavy Hand: Sugar, the State, and Migrant Labor in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.” Latin American Research Review 34 (1): 57–84.
  • Martinez, S. 2003. “Not A Cockfight: Re-thinking Haitian–Dominican Relations.” Latin American Perspectives 30 (3): 80–101.
  • Mason, L. 2012. “Mobile Migrants, Mobile Germs: Migration, Contagion, and Boundary-building in Shenzhen, China after SARS.” Medical Anthropology 31 (2): 113–131.
  • Meyer, I., S. Schwartz, and D. Frost. 2008. “Social Patterning of Stress Exposures.” Social Science and Medicine 67: 368–379.
  • Ministerio de Salud Publica. 2013. National Plan for the Elimination of Cholera in the Dominican Republic. Ministerio de Salud Publica: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • Ministerio de Trabajo. 2011. Inmigrantes haitianos y mercado laboral: estudio sobre los trabajadores de la construcción y de la producción del guineo en la República Dominicana [Haitian Immigrants and the Labor Market, Study of Workers in Construction and Agricultural Production in the Dominican Republic]. Ministerio de Trabajo: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • Nations, M., and C. Monte. 1996. “I'm not Dog, no!”: Cries of Resistance against Cholera Control Campaigns.” Social Science and Medicine 43 (6): 1007–1024.
  • Neely, B., and M. Samura. 2011. “Social Geographies of Race: Connecting Race and Space.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (11): 1933–1952.
  • Noticias Aliadas. 2011. “Gobierno responde a CIDH sobre discriminación a haitianos [Government responds to CIDH regarding discrimination against Haitians].” Noticias Aliadas, October 27. Accessed 27 August 2017. http://www.comunicacionesaliadas.org/articles.asp?art=6494
  • PAHO (Pan-American Health Organization). 2015. “Atlas of cholera outbreak in La Hispaniola, 2010–2015.” Accessed 2 January 2016. http://new.paho.org/hq/images/Atlas_IHR/CholeraHispaniola/atlas.html
  • PAHO (Pan-American Health Organization)/UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)/CDC (Centers for Disease Control). 2011. “Call to Action: A Cholera-Free Hispaniola.” Position Paper. Accessed 27 August 2017. http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6288&Itemid=135&lang=en
  • Paulino, E. 2002. “National Politics and Ethnic Identity in the Dominican Republic.” New West Indian Guide 1 (2): 105–113.
  • Paulino, E. 2006. “Anti-Haitianism, Historical Memory, and the Potential for Genocidal Violence in the Dominican Republic.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 1 (3): 265–288.
  • Pettigrew, T., and L. Tropp. 2006. “A Meta-analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90 (5): 751–783.
  • Piarroux, R., R. Barrais, B. Faucher, R. Haus, M. Piarroux, J. Gaudart, R. Magloire, and D. Raoult. 2011. “Understanding the Cholera Epidemic, Haiti.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 17 (7): 1161–1168.
  • Ricardo Taveras Blanco, J. 2011. “Migración refuta versión del New York Times” [Migration refutes version of New York Times]. Listín Diario, September 19. Accessed 27 August 2017. http://www.listindiario.com/la-republica/2011/9/19/204091/Migracion-refuta-version-del-periodico-The-New-York-Times
  • Salas Castro, N. 2012. “Organización y respuesta al cólera en zonas agrícolas, bateyes, y migrantes.” In Cólera en República Dominicana: lecciones aprendidas a un año de la epidemia, edited by J. Rodríguez Aybar, M. Jiménez, R. Pimentel, and J. Moya, 118. Santo Domingo: Organización Panamericana de la Salud/Pan-American Health Organization.
  • San Miguel, Pedro L. 2005. The Imagined Island: History, Identity, and Utopia in Hispaniola. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Simmons, D. 2010. “Structural Violence as Social Practice: Haitian Agricultural Workers, Anti-Haitianism, and Health in the Dominican Republic.” Human Organization 69 (1): 10–18.
  • Sontag, S. 1990. Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and its Metaphors. New York: Picador.
  • Tappero, J., and R. Tauxe. 2011. “Lessons Learned During Public Health Response to Cholera Epidemic in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 17 (11): 2087–2093.
  • Transnational Development Clinic. 2013. Peacekeeping without Accountability. New Haven, CT: Yale Law School.
  • Trouillot, M. R. 1995. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
  • United Nations. 2008. Mission to Dominican Republic. edited by Racial Discrimination Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. New York: United Nations General Assembly.
  • Willen, S. 2007a. “Exploring ‘illegal’ and irregular' Migrants' Lived Experiences of law and State Power.” International Migration 45 (3): 2–7.
  • Willen, S. 2007b. “Toward a Critical Phenomenology of “illegality:” State Power, Criminalization, and Abjectivity Among Undocumneted Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel.” International Migration 45 (3): 8–38.
  • Willen, S. 2012a. “How is Health-related “deservingness” Reckoned? Perspectives from Unauthorized in/migrants in Tel Aviv.” Social Science and Medicine 74: 812–821.
  • Willen, S. 2012b. “Migration, “illegality,” and Health: Mapping Embodied Vulnerability and Debating Health-related Deservingness.” Social Science and Medicine 74 (6): 805–811.
  • Willen, S. 2015. “Lightening Rods in the Local Moral Economy: Debating Unauthroized Migrants' Deservingness in Israel.” International Migration 53 (3): 70–86.
  • Willen, S., J. Mulligan, and H. Castaneda. 2011. “Taking a Stand Commentary: How can Medical Anthropologists Contribute to Contemporary Conversations on “illegal” im/migration and Health?” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25 (3): 331–356.
  • Wooding, B., and R. Moseley-Williams. 2004. Inmigrantes haitianos y dominicanos de ascendencia haitiana en la Republica Dominicana. Santo Domingo: Centro Internacional para el Desarollo (CID) y el Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados y Migrantes (SJR).
  • Yang, L., F. Chen, K. Sia, J. Lam, K. Lam, H. Ngo, S. Lee, A. Kleinman, and B. Good. 2014. “‘What Matters Most:’ A Cultural Mechanism Moderating Structural Vulnerability and Moral Experience of Mental Illness Stigma.” Social Science and Medicine 103: 84–93.
  • Yang, L.H., A. Kleinman, B. Link, J. Phelan, S. Lee, and B. Good. 2007. “Culture and Stigma: Adding Moral Experience to Stigma Theory.” Social Science and Medicine 64: 1524–1535.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.