Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Various Imprisoned Haitian Refugee Women
• Chantalle F. Verna
• Kaiama L. Glover
• Nadève Ménard
• Millery Polyné
• Laurent Dubois

Titel

Letter to the Haitian Refugee Project

Ist Teil von

• The Haiti Reader, 2020, p.378

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the early 1970s Haitians began to flee Haiti for the United States aboard small, often overcrowded and dangerous boats. These so-called boat people claimed to be escaping political persecution and violence in Haiti and were seeking asylum in the United States. American immigration officials categorized the Haitians not as political refugees, but as economic migrants who were thus ineligible for asylum and unauthorized to be in the United States. Since they were classified as illegal immigrants, the Haitians were, throughout the 1970s, subject to imprisonment and deportation. After his election in 1980, President Ronald Reagan introduced the “interdiction” program,