birthright citizenshipjus soli citizenshipjus sanguinis citizenshipHaitians of Dominican descentMexican migration to the United StatesDREAM ActMigration Law 285-04Dilcia Yean and Violeta Bosico v. Dominican Republic casepThe Dominican Republic and the United States have both experienced tensions arising from...
nearly 50 percent of Dominican American households were helmed by a woman; nearly the same number lived in poverty. Some experts blamed the immigration process itself for long-term separations of families. Others point
Adopt measures to ensure that Dominican of Haitian descent are not denied citizenship or access to civil and birth registration procedures and are not arbitrarily subject to retroactive cancellation of birth and identity documents (United States): This is not acceptable because, as noted earlier, appl...
Citizenship: One adoptive parent must be a US citizen. Age: Adoptive parents must be at least 30 years of age. Parents can be as old as 60, but must be at least 15 years older than the child they plan to adopt. Marriage Status: Married couples should be married at least 5 years. ...
In one fell swoop, the Constitutional Court paved the way for tens, and possibly hundreds, of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent to be stripped of their citizenship and forced into liminality (Archibold 2013; Ed-monds 2013; Rojas 2013).1As I explain in further detail below, Sentence ...
I demonstrate this population is a target for harder policing because of new citizenship legislation that categorised Haitian descent minorities as outsiders to the community. This adds a distinctively undemocratic flavour to efforts to transform public safety provision in the country....
In 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic ruled that children born to undocumented parents in the country since 1929 -- the year Haiti and the Dominican Republic formalized their border -- never had been entitled to citizenship. The government set a deadline of June 17, 2015...
That Dominican-born persons with Haitian descent were more likely to attribute being called names to their documentation problems potentially indicates how institutional decisions like the 2013 Sentencia, which disproportionately affected this group by taking away their right to citizenship [32], plays ...
Haiti, Dominican Republic at Odds Because Ruling Deprives Persons of Haitian Descent of Dominican CitizenshipRodriguez, George
Adopt measures to ensure that Dominican of Haitian descent are not denied citizenship or access to civil and birth registration procedures and are not arbitrarily subject to retroactive cancellation of birth and identity documents (United States): This is not acceptable because, as noted earlier, appl...