Borders, Buscones, Brothels and Bi-National Markets: Haitian Women Negotiate How to Get Through
Authors: Allison J. Petrozziello and Bridget Wooding. Using a feminist ethnographic approach, this case study examines the experiences of Haitian women and girls in the Dominican border town of Comendador, Elias Pina, to understand the choices and calculated risks they take in order to get through in a context marked by trafficking, violence, and asymmetrical power relations.
The 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak in Haiti gave new momentum to women's migration to the Dominican Republic and increased the risk of trafficking.
Using a feminist ethnographic approach, this case study examines the experiences of Haitian women and girls in the Dominican border town of Comendador, Elias Pina, to understand the choices and calculated risks they take in order to "get through." The authors situate trafficking within a spectrum of violence against women along a border marked by radically asymmetrical power relations, and they call for coordinated social interventions beyond law enforcement that guarantee effective protection in the cross-border context.
Reference: Petrozziello, A. and Wooding, B. 2013. Borders, Buscones, Brothels and Bi-National Markets: Haitian Women Negotiate How to Get Through. In Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power, July, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 183-205. Sage Publications.
| Publication date: | July 2007 |
| Format - size: | PDF - 735 KB |
| URL: | http://cdy.sagepub.com |