1st Edition

Haitians Migration And Diaspora

By Anthony V. Catanese Copyright 1999
    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    156 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is about the movement of Haitians from rural Haiti to the urbanized U.S. Atlantic seaboard. It is an attempt to bring cohesion to a particular human migration, important in the process of education about the diversity and the commonalities of all U.S. immigrants.

    1. Introduction 2. Duvalierism and Haiti's Vast Majority: The Rural Poor and Pig Repopulation in the 1980s 3. Deforestation and Haitian Poverty 4. Misguided Reforestation: Focusing on Poor Haitians 5. Haitian Refugees 6. The International Embargo of the 1990s 7. Making Haiti Livable for Its People 8. Haitian Americans 9. Transnational Linkages: Haitian Americans and Haitians 10. Epilogue: The Future