DR & Haiti

Recent acts of anti-Haitian violence and discrimination are not isolated events, but part of a long history of anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic.

For the hundreds of thousands of Kreyòl speakers living in the Dominican Republic, the lack of language resources limits access to basic services.

As daily life in Haiti goes on, evictions, displacement, and other experiences of urban space powerfully shape exclusion and belonging.

The Dominican government has always aligned itself with white supremacism, following the United States' lead on immigration policies towards Haitians.

Colonialism, instability, natural disasters, and other emergencies have dangerously weakened Haiti's health system. Hospitals, doctors, and patients urgently need solutions.

In an interview, lawyer-advocate Rosa Iris Diendome discusses her work defending the citizenship status of Dominicans of Haitian descent, which filmmaker Michèle Stephenson chronicles in her recent documentary Stateless.

For members of Nou Pap Dòmi, a collective within Haiti's PetroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.

The United States' systemic anti-Blackness at home and abroad shatters illusions of democracy in Haiti. Achieving true independence demands solidarity.

In Port-au-Prince, botched NGO and military inventions have fragmented urban space, triggering an explosive proliferation of violent armed groups.

Migrant exoduses from Haiti illuminate how authoritarianism, globalization, and anti-Blackness shape mobility in the Americas and U.S. border policy, regardless of the government in power.

The Covid-19 figures in Haiti don't reflect the reality on the ground. 

Una entrevista con Ana F. Lafontaine, profesora de historia dominicana y latinoamericana, sobre la crisis electoral en la República Dominicana.