Borders of visibility : Haitian migrant women and the Dominican nation-state / Jennifer L. Shoaff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoaff, Jennifer L., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitians--Dominican Republic--Social conditions.

Haitians.

Women, Black--Dominican Republic--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Women immigrants--Dominican Republic--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Racism--Dominican Republic.

Racism.

Haiti--Emigration and immigration.

Haiti.

Dominican Republic--Emigration and immigration.

Dominican Republic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2017.

Summary:

An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Paradox of (In)Visibility

Part I. Mobility

1. Afro-Caribbean Women "On the Move": Historiographies of Gender, Race, and Trade

2. Mobile Livelihoods, Transborder Markets, and Gendered Geographies of Power

3. Fanm Vanyan: Making Place, Making Home in Batey Sol

Part II. Containment

4. "The Book of Foreigners": The Race/Gender Contours of Documentation and Citizenship

5. The "Beggar Mother": Discursive Formations of "Deviant Black Motherhood" and the Racial Intimacies of Anti-Haitian Nationalism

6. A Politics of Expendability: Deportation, Nativism, and State-Local Control

Epilogue: "When the Ground Falls Out Beneath Her": Reflections on the (In)Visibility of Privilege

Notes

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9158-4

OCLC:

1010746970