Haitian Migration The United States should allow for Haitian immigrants to move to the U.S. With many Haitians already making the traverse to America where many ultimately end up getting deported, there's already not much the U.S. can do as John Burnett from NPR points out that “...the Haitians keep coming.”. The amount of the Haitian immigrants that have escaped to Mexico and are already making their way to the U.S. has grown exponentially from previous years. If the U.S. continues to keep attempting to detain these endless immigrants or sending them back, the expenses of fulfilling these actions will eventually grow impractically large. On the other hand, rather than sending back these Haitians who just end up trying to make the escape
... the United States succeeded in creating infrastructure and a powerful police presence, the poverty, ignorance, and the lack of a tradition for orderly free government were completely unchanged leaving no substantial benefit for millions of uneducated poor black Haitians. The real lasting impact was the further degradation of the Haitian people with the mulatto elite still in control of the bureaucracy and national affairs setting the stage for pro-U.S. military dictators with the resources to ignore human rights and violently suppress the opposition.
Haiti is located in the Caribbean; it occupies the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haitians migrated to the U.S. due to regime change. In Florida, over 700,000 Haitians live there (Background on Haiti & Haitian Health Culture). Many Haitian-Americans share both cultures. There are similarities and differences between the American and Haitian culture. The two cultures have different foods, holidays and economy.
The Republic of Haiti is in the western part of the island of Hispaniola in the West Indies. It is densely populated and has the lowest per capita income in the western hemisphere (Kemp, 2001). The population of more than seven million is made up of mostly descendents of African slaves brought to the West Indies by French colonists. The horrible conditions in Haiti, such as crushing poverty, unemployment and illiteracy, and high rates of acute and chronic illnesses and child and infant mortality, result in the illegal immigration of many Haitians to the United States, France, and other countries in Western Europe. Most immigrants are adults and teens who leave Haiti in tiny boats, despite the risk of drowning and other hazards. According to Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 2001 statistics, the number of refugees has declined to several thousand per year since the early 1990’s.
The country of Haiti makes up one third of the island of Hispaniola, which is located in the western hemisphere. The first inhabitants of the island of Hispaniola were the Arawarks, or Tainos. They named the island Ayiti, which means mountainous land. The native West Indians were nomadic in nature and settled in Haiti around 250 C.E. Initially described as primitive by early European colonists, the Tainos had well established societies and religious systems. Their patriarchical society was arranged into a hierarchy. There were multiple kings called caciques over their individual kingdoms. Similarity with other indigenous groups, men did the hard labor. They would work the lands, cultivating fields and hunting for food. Men would also do woodwork including, but not limited to basket weaving. Women on the other hand would contribute to the house work by prepping and cooking food as well as assisting in basket weaving. Tainos were polygamist; the average man would have three wives, the king was able to have ten times more than that.
As the Latino population in the United States continues to grow, U.S. Census Bureau, 2001, increasing attention is being turned toward understanding the risk and protective factors of immigrant Latino and U.S.-born Latino children and families. The demographic data relating to Latinos in the United States estimate that one of every two people added to the U.S population was Latino, in July 2009 Latino population was the fastest growing minority group U.S Census Bureau, 2010. Despite the increased risk of growing the immigrant families are in lower risk of Social Economic Status, having parents with less education and limited with language and knowledge about education. Immigrating to one place to another is often the most stressful event
Haiti is a small country in the West Indies and is the western third of the island Hispaniola (Rodman, Selden). According to Selden Rodman Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and after the earthquake in 2010 they are way worse than they were before. The Earthquake changed a lot for everyone living there rich and poor. “Over 200,000 people died as a result of the earthquake another 2.3 lost their homes” (Haiti). This quote shows how bad the 7.0 Haiti Earthquake was that happened in January of 2010. The conditions are already awful for the people there and all the human rights violations happening are not helping. The conditions are so bad many are trying to flee their country and come to the United States even though they know that the chance of making it there is very slim (Human rights violations…). According to Richard Horton and William Summskill the United States did a survey test called the lancelet to get results from the Haitians on human rights violations happening. The survey showed us murders, women getting raped and other human violations numbers. This showed the United States that we should take action, because we had real evidence from the victims of the human rights violations in Haiti. One of the problems is that the United States does not know how to help. Haiti is so behind in everything; technology, inexperienced policemen, lacking a judicial system and their economy is very unstable. We should take action in Haiti because of these human rights violations; police and government abuse, women not getting their rights, and poor people not getting their rights.
African-American history in the Twentieth Century is best summarized by both the Civil Rights Movement, and the lesser known Great Migration, in which a large number of them made a move north, west, or overseas, between the years of 1910 and 1940. The broadest reason for this movement is the Jim Crow laws of the south, in which many of the regulations that were harmful towards those parties, whom were already affected by the institution of slavery within recent memory, were instituted. However, this is far from the only cause, of which there are many that span a wide range of reasons: the WWI economic boom, geographic mobility, and the racial antagonism faced on a widespread basis. The actual migration of African-Americans themselves is nothing new, as Sarah-Jane Mathieu notes in her work on the subject, “Movement has always characterized the African-American experience.”1 Whether it be the willful movement to the north for obtaining rights, or the plunder of these people from their homes, African-American Heritage is one of migration.
In the past, rafts teeming with Cuban refugees have routinely floated to American shores in order to escape the brutal and oppressive Castro regime. Haitians arriving in the same manner were turned away because their plight did not involve politics but poverty. Semantics aside, it is hard not to wonder if skin color played a role in their expulsion. Furthermore, though Haiti’s government is not classified as communist, the policies and actions of of its officials can arguably be considered equally as
The economics of Haiti has deceased in the last 4 years after the devastating earthquake that struck it 4 years ago. The Haiti economy has become very poor and one of the poorest country in the south, Central America and Caribbean region making it ranked 24 out of 29 countries in this area and its overall score is below average. Haiti’s economic freedom is 48.1 making it economy the 151st freest country while in the last several years Declines in the management of government spending, freedom from corruption, and labor freedom make its overall score 2.6 points lower than last year. Recovering from the disastrous earthquake in 2010 with the support of the U.S. recovering efforts “Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction efforts continue, assisted by substantial aid from the international community. Governing institutions remain weak and inefficient, and overall progress has not been substantial. The parliament has not renewed the mandate of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, which had been tasked with overseeing reconstruction efforts but was unpopular.”( .heritage.org). The open market of Haiti trade weighted to be 2.1 this is because the lack of tariffs hamper the trade freedom of Haiti. Foreign investors are given national treatment but the investment is small and the financial sector is remained underdeveloped and does not provide any adequate support.
With the rapid economic development, more and more people try to immigrate to America and trying to learn English. Some parents would like their children just speaking English. However, there are some parents tend to keep their native language and teach to their children, in order to keep their culture alive. And in my opinion, parents should keep their old language alive.
During the mass immigration era of America, an abundant number of people traveled to the urban industrial society of the United States in aspiration to seek job opportunities and better lives than the ones they left behind. These groups included the Poles, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans, Japanese, East European Jews, and the African- Americans. However, one of these groups mentioned was distinctly different from the rest: the African-Americans. They were already American citizens, who migrated to the northern American cities to free themselves from segregation, oppression, and harsh conditions they experienced in the South and obtain equal rights and opportunities. Although the African-Americans' ambitions were exceedingly high, there were strong barriers that kept them from reaching their goals of Americanization. The historical legacy of slavery acted as a barrier, and left the African-Americans with fewer civil rights than all other Americans and immigrants. To understand the meaning of "civil rights," it can be defined as "the rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship especially the fundamental freedoms including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination" (Dictionary.com). African-Americans were similar to the new comers from abroad in that they both experienced change and adjustment when entering urban American, but due to the legacy of slavery and the impact it had on the African-Americans' civil rights, the African-Americans migration experience was clearly different than other immigration experiences.
Immigration has been present in the United States since the establishment of the government. People of Latino descent have long been an important subject regarding immigration to the United States. Juan Gonzalez states that two out of every three Latinos in America are of Mexican American descent (96). Miami has a large population of Cubans. Gonzalez also states that the Hispanic population in Miami skyrocketed from fifty thousand in 1960 to more than 580,000 in 1980(110). Gonzalez says that, 375,000 Mexican Americans served in the U.S armed forces in which five Mexicans have been awarded the congressional medal of honor during world war two (103). It is evident that Latinos of both cultures are an integral part of our society and have influenced
Haitians are one of the many groups that have migrated over to the United States over the years. Haitian-Americans are a small group but they continue to grow in numbers as the years go on. From the year 1990 the amount of Haitian-Americans tripled in size up to 2012. There has been a multitude of surveys and research done in order to calculate these demographics. One association that have conducted research on Haitian-Americans is “The American Community Survey”. They use an approach of asking each participant to write in his or her ancestry or ethnic origin. From the responses compiled together, the U.S. Census Bureau considers anyone who wrote in “Haitian” in the space on the survey to be of Haitian ancestry. A few subjects that have been studied on this group includes earnings, education, gender, location, homeownership, and household type. The
The Haitians were successful in defeating the French, British and Spanish. They also ended slavery and Haiti became an independent republic. However, they were economically crippled for centuries. American President Thomas Jefferson refused to establish relations with Haiti and banned trade with Haiti to ensure the economic failure of the new republic. France and the United States shunned them and didn’t recognize them after the revolution.
A Dominican government plan could deport tens, if not hundreds of thousands Haitian migrants (Kohut, 2015). Haitians are afraid to be deported to Haiti, many of them crossed the border as a child or born in D.R. Haitians crossed every market day to D.R. to sell their goods because the economic in their side of the island is too poor to commercial. Many of them had immigrated to D.R. looking for better future for their family. The government is shutting down their dreams like it shut down the border bridge without making sure every Haitian had crossed it. As this picture shows the river is not high and does not had a lot of current but while the parents are securing their goods a small child walking through can draw. The gate show be open until each Haitian crossed it. In this photo is clear that Haitian are not allowed to stay in Dominican Republic not even to spend the night until the border gate open. They know if they stay would be deported and would not be allowed to sell in the market. The law should provide shelter for