Dominican Republic

June 15, 2017
Amaury Rodriguez

Against a history of repression, corruption, and impunity, a growing social movement in the Dominican Republic demands change.

May 25, 2016
Lorgia García Peña

A century later, the legacies of the U.S. military intervention of the Dominican Republic persist.

May 6, 2016
Jeb Sprague-Silgado

The two leading candidates in the upcoming Dominican Republic presidential election differ little when it comes to economic policy and the targeting of migrant and migrant-descendant communities.

April 25, 2016
Ellie Happel

The destructive impact of metal mining in the Dominican Republic has lessons for neighboring Haiti, where activists are seeking a moratorium on all mining projects. 

July 14, 2015
Amelia Hintzen

Beginning as an elite construction rather than a popular attitude, the widespread vilification of Haitians began under the brutal Trujillo dictatorship.

April 6, 2015
Nicki Fleischner

A Dominican woman of Haitian descent finds herself stateless in her own country. 

January 21, 2014
The most well known Venezuelan assistance to Haiti has come in the form of Venezuela's PetroCaribe program. But as the neighboring Dominican Republic passes controversial immigration control measures, Venezuela’s support has grown to encompass diplomatic assistance as well.    
November 20, 2013
Imagine the sort of metal police barricades you see at protests. These are unevenly lined up like so many crooked teeth on the Dominican Republic’s side of the river that acts as its border with Haiti. Like dazed versions of U.S. Border Patrol agents, the armed Dominican border guards sit at their assigned posts, staring at the opposite shore.
October 3, 2013
The recent decision by the Dominican Republic to retroactively revoke the citizenship of an estimated 300,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent raises numerous legal, moral, and humanitarian concerns. This reactionary decision is founded on the combination of a troubling culture of anti-Haitian racism and a downplay of the Dominican Republic's continued demand of migrant labour in its agricultural, construction, and tourist industries.
May 31, 2013
Yarimar Bonilla

On July 5, 2012, the world-renowned anthropologist, historian, and writer Michel-Rolph Trouillot passed away in his home in Chicago, after a decade-long struggle to recover from a brain aneurism. He was 62. Trouillot leaves behind a rich body of work striking in its compelling prose, intellectual sophistication, theoretical rigor, and disciplinary innovation.

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