Legal Identity Race And Belonging In The Dominican Republic

Author : Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785277665

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Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic by Eve Hayes de Kalaf Pdf

This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Author : Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Publisher : Anthem Citizenship and Nationa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1839988290

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Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic by Eve Hayes de Kalaf Pdf

This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Author : Lorgia García-Peña
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822373667

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The Borders of Dominicanidad by Lorgia García-Peña Pdf

In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, she analyzes musical, visual, artistic, and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. García-Peña also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices of long-silenced Dominicans.

Author : David Howard
Publisher : Signal Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 190266910X

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Coloring the Nation by David Howard Pdf

This volume explores the significance of racial theorizing in Dominican society and its manifestation in everyday life. The author examines how ideas of skin colour and racial identity influence a wide spectrum of Dominicans in how they view themselves and their Haitian neighbours.

Author : Trenita Brookshire Childers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538131022

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In Someone Else's Country by Trenita Brookshire Childers Pdf

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.

Author : Eve Hayes de Kalaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : OCLC:1113397242

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Making Foreign by Eve Hayes de Kalaf Pdf

This empirical, multidisciplinary study offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The study highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns in scholarship regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop (Seltzer and Anderson, 2001; Bigo, 2006; Lyon, 2009). The project therefore serves as a warning about the potential use of social policy architectures for authoritarian practices. In this regard, it offers a timely critique of global policy measures to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Author : Raquel Cepeda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451635874

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Bird of Paradise by Raquel Cepeda Pdf

Chronicles the author's quest to find out about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing findings, stories, and the controveries around Latino identity.

Author : Gerard Delanty,Ruth Wodak,Paul Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781846311185

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Identity, Belonging and Migration by Gerard Delanty,Ruth Wodak,Paul Jones Pdf

The emergence of new kinds of racism in European societies—referred to variously as “Euro-racism,” “cultural racism,” or, in France, as racisme differential—has been widely discussed by citizens and scholars alike. While these accounts differ, there is widespread agreement that racism in Europe is on the rise and that one of its characteristic features is hostility to migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. Migrant Voices aims to provide a new understanding of the social, political, and historical forces that marginalize these new “others”—culminating in an investigation of the narratives of day-to-day life that produce a culture of everyday racism.

Author : Lorgia García Peña
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023289

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Translating Blackness by Lorgia García Peña Pdf

In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora, such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén—or, coming and going—at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to understand human lived experiences.

Author : Robtel Neajai Pailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108836548

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Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa by Robtel Neajai Pailey Pdf

Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569479292

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The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Pdf

It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers. Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and survival—from one of the most important voices of her generation—is an unforgettable memorial to the victims of the Parsley Massacre and a testimony to the power of human memory.

Author : Bridget Wooding
Publisher : CIIR
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dominican Republic
ISBN : 1852873035

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Needed But Unwanted by Bridget Wooding Pdf

Author : Alejandro de la Fuente,Ariela J. Gross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480642

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Becoming Free, Becoming Black by Alejandro de la Fuente,Ariela J. Gross Pdf

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

Author : Joel S. Migdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139452366

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Boundaries and Belonging by Joel S. Migdal Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders and space that goes beyond a school map of states. Its subject is the struggle among differing spatial logics, or mental maps. It is concerned with the meaning that state borders hold for people, but recognizes that such meaning varies and is contested by other social formations. To what degree do state borders encase the mechanisms that make the decisive rules governing people's lives and to what extent do they give way to other rulemakers? To what extent do states circumscribe the communities to which people feel attached and to what extent do they intersect with other communities of belonging? These essays home in on the struggles and conflicting demands on people, given that state borders are not automatically pre-eminent and that other spatial logics demand attention.

Author : Neeladri Bhattacharya,Joy L. K. Pachuau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481298

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Landscape, Culture and Belonging by Neeladri Bhattacharya,Joy L. K. Pachuau Pdf

This volume is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India.