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New Challenges for the Realisation of Migrants' Rights Following the H aiti 2010 Earthquake: H aitian Women on the Borderlands
Author(s) -
WOODING BRIDGET,
PETROZZIELLO ALLISON J.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12073
Subject(s) - realisation , frontier , enforcement , political science , business , criminology , law , sociology , physics , quantum mechanics
Crossing the D ominican– H aitian border in greater numbers than previously, H aitian women and girls, many of whom have been forcibly displaced by the 2010 earthquake in H aiti, make multiple decisions about where to go and whom to trust. Thus they are in contact with informal scouts and other agents, while seeking employment as vendors in the frontier market, domestic workers in private homes, and sex workers in brothels in the D ominican R epublic. This article argues that trafficking is but one problem along a spectrum of violence and human rights violations facing these women, requiring coordinated social interventions beyond law enforcement.