Philippe Zacair

Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora in the Wider Caribbean Philippe Zacair First Edition, First Ed. edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Philippe Zacair, Catherine Reinhardt -- Part 1. Haitian Diasporas -- 1. Marginality and Subjectivity in the Haitian Diaspora / Paul Brodwin -- 2. The Trial of Ibo Simon: Popular Media and Anti-Haitian Violence in Guadeloupe / Philippe Zacair -- 3. The Mirror That We Don't Want: Literary Confrontations between Haitians and Guadeloupeans / Odile Ferly -- 4. Identifications and Kinships among Haitians in French Guiana: Observations on a Diaspora / Maud Laetheir -- 5. Medical Humanitarianism and Health as a Human Right on the Haitian-Dominican Border / Pierre Minn -- 6. Refugee Rights in the Caribbean: A Study of Haitians in Jamaica / Sharon E. Clarke -- Part 2. Testimonies -- 7. Conversation with Myrtha Desulme, President of the Haiti-Jamaica Society / Philippe Zacair -- 8. Congratulations! You Don't Look Haitian: How and When Does One Look Haitian? / Cecile Accilien -- 9. Picking and Unpicking Time: Contextualizing Haitian Immigration in French Guiana / Marc Lony -- List of Contributors -- Index. Publisher Marketing: A sophisticated, elegant, well-researched, very varied, brilliantly and fluidly written book. Also an indispensable guide to understanding the Haitian immigrant reality fully and completely.--Georges E. Fouron, SUNY-Stony Brook Adds an important dimension to our broader understanding of a topic often ignored in academic and popular literature--the complex issues of intra-Caribbean migration.--Robert Maguire, Trinity Washington University During the past ten years, political debates, legal disputes, and rising violence associated with the presence of Haitian migrants have flared up throughout the Caribbean basin in such places as Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. The contributors to this volume explore the common thread of prejudice against the Haitian diaspora as well as its potential role in the construction of national narratives from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. These essays, written by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and Francophone studies scholars, examine how Haitians interact as an immigrant group with other parts of the Caribbean as well as how they are perceived and treated, particularly in terms of ethnicity and race, in their migration experience in the broader Caribbean. By discussing the prevalence of anti-Haitianism throughout the region alongside the challenges Haitians face as immigrants, this volume completes the global view of the Haitian diaspora saga.

Contributor Bio:  Zacair, Philippe Philippe Zacair is associate professor of history at California State University-Fullerton. Contributor Bio:  Zaca R, Philippe Philippe Zacair is associate professor of history at California State University-Fullerton.