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Ethnography of migration and malaria among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic
Objectives
The goal of this ethnographic project is to examine how sociopolitical conditions, institutional practices, and hierarchies of knowledge shape Haitian migrants’ vulnerability to malaria within the context of the Hispaniola Malaria Initiative.
The Hispaniola Malaria Initiative is an international, multi-agency partnership seeking to eliminate malaria from Haiti and the Dominican Republic by 2020. Haitian migrants are thought to have a role in transmission because of their circular migration between both countries. At the same time, their vulnerability relates to the political space of health in which they live. Anti-Haitian institutional practices block access to legal documents and healthcare while depriving migrant communities of basic services. This ethnographic project explores how this charged, sociopolitical context and its hierarchies of knowledge and expertise generate different ways of understanding, experiencing, and managing vulnerability to malaria.
Sep 2016 — Dec 2020
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