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Borders of Visibility : Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State, Hardback Book

Borders of Visibility : Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State Hardback

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An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women's mobility in the Dominican Republic.

Borders of Visibility offers extremely timely insight into the Dominican Republic's racist treatment of Haitian descendants within its borders.

Jennifer L. Shoaff employs multi-sited feminist research to focus on the geographies of power that intersect to inform the opportunities and constraints that migrant women must navigate to labor and live within a context that largely denies their human rights, access to citizenship, and a sense of security and belonging.

Paradoxically, these women are both hypervisible because of the blackness that they embody and invisible because they are marginalized by intersecting power inequalities.

Haitian women must contend with diffuse legal, bureaucratic and discursive state-local practices across i?1/2borderi?1/2 sites that situate them as a specific kind of threat that must be contained.

Shoaff examines this dialectic of mobility and containment across various sites in the northwest Dominican Republic, including the official border crossing, trans-border and regional used-clothing markets, migrant settlements ( bateyes ), and other rural-urban contexts.

Shoaff combines ethnographic interviews, participant observation, institutional analyses of state structures and nongovernmental agencies, and archival documentation, to bring this human rights issue to the fore.

Although primarily grounded in critical ethnographic practice, this work contributes to the larger fields of transnational feminism, black studies, migration and border studies, political economy, and cultural geography.

Borders of Visibility brings much needed attention to Haitian migrant women's economic ingenuity and entrepreneurial savvy, their ability to survive and thrive, their often impossible choices whether to move or to stay, returning them to a place of visibility, while exposing the very structures that continue to render them invisible and thus, expendable overtime.

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