Dominican RepublicHaitiimmigrationpolitical economyprecaritystructural violencetourismThis article discusses the contemporary entanglements of a growing immigration-industrial complex and a mass international tourism project in the Dominican Republic. At this nexus, Haitian im/migrant labor, and the labor of ...
Obstetric Violence as Reproductive Governance in the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicRepública Dominicanaadaptive preferencebirthdiscriminacióndiscriminationmaltratomistreatmentnacimientoobstetric violenceA human rights violation, obstetric violence encompasses numerous forms of mistreatment against women giving birth in...
The Mirabal sisters – Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa – of the Dominican Republic were revolutionaries who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. They were assassinated by the regime on 25 November 1960. Minerva was the one who had the most active role in politics. She founded the Revo...
Key populations in Latin America and the Caribbean also experience high levels of gender-based violence (GBV), defined as any violence directed at an individual based on their biological sex, gender identity (e.g., transgender), or behaviors that are inconsistent with social expectations of “bei...
And though Yahaira reaches out to Papi, who’s in the Dominican Republic, immediately after her assault, he never returns her phone calls, texts, or emails—and when he does finally contact her days later, it’s to berate her for something else. Physically growing up, for Yahaira and ...
even calm, rational, conscientious academicians are publicly lamenting America’s increasingly bellicose policies from Vietnam to the Dominican Republic. Suddenly, as if awakened from a technicolor dream, intellectuals are discovering such words as “imperialism” and “expansionism.” An...
On November 25, 1960, three sisters, Patria Mercedes Mirabal, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal, were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on the orders of the Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo. The Mirabel sisters fought hard to end Trujillo's dictatorship. Activists...
All types of violence against women have a common denominator in that they are all sexual violence - based on womens physical difference and social and ... B Sobrino - 《Santo Domingo Dominican Republic United Nations International Research & Training Institute for the Advancement of Women Instraw...
This should be a wake-up call for politicians and healthcare authorities in Sweden. A recent ethnographic field study from Mexico and the Dominican Republic showed that ‘obstetric violence’ was the norm rather than the exception (Castro, 2019) and that ‘obstetric violence’ is maintained by ...
This report analyzes data from 10 recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS): Bangladesh (2004) Bolivia (2003/2004) the Dominican Republic (2002) Haiti (2005) Kenya (2003) Malawi (2004) Moldova (2005) Rwanda (2005) Zambia (2001/2002) and Zimbabwe (2005/2006). The first part of this ...