State literacies and inequality: Managing Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic

Bartlett, Lesley; Jayaram, Kiran; Bonhomme, Gulin

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.02.005

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“…Central to the negotiations between Sudha and the bank officials was the invocation of the concept of the official document, and a shared view of the importance of writing in asserting the facts in the face of the law, despite different perceptions regarding how such an official document should look. Thus, this account in common with other studies which examine migrant encounters with the literacies associated with immigration bureaucracies (for example, Bartlett et al, 2011;Vieira, 2013) highlights the way in which, for migrants such as Sudha, the authority of official texts creates a special status that may regulate and constrain, or unlock and make possible certain kinds of actions and movements. It also provides a powerful illustration of the way in which, the women in the group, were able to draw on their knowledge, initiative and social networks, as well as their emerging literacy skills in English, and find ways to successfully negotiate complex literacy demanding situations, in which they found themselves facing high status and well educated officials operating across global contexts.…”

Section: Official Literaciessupporting

confidence: 52%

Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space

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2018

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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This paper explores the learning experiences and literacy practices of a group of female migrant domestic workers from Nepal, reporting on ethnographic data collected between 2008 and 2013. Drawing on the conceptualisation of literacy as a social practice, as well as the notion of translocational positionality (Anthias 2002, 2006, 2008), it examines the way in which the women's emerging literacy practices in English interacted with their experiences as migrant workers. It argues that understanding the transnational nature of the women's lives is essential to understanding the complex ways in which literacy was threaded through their social and material practices. In doing so it points to the need for a more complex conceptualisation of context and of the relationship between the local and global within literacy research, which pays attention to the way in which literacy practices interact with processes entailing movement and positioning across boundaries and between different transnational spaces.

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Section: Official Literaciessupporting

confidence: 52%

Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space

North¹

2018

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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“…Officially promulgated during the Trujillo dictatorship , anti-haitianismo is an ultra-nationalistic, overtly racist ideology; those appearing 'more Haitian' occupy the lower strata in a racial-moral hierarchy (Bartlett, Jayaram, and Bonhomme 2011). Nonetheless, race in Dominican culture is a complex construct, as the majority of Dominicans share some degree of African ancestry (Sagas and Inoa 2003).…”

Section: Haiti the Dominican Republic And Anti-haitianismomentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived discrimination, humiliation, and mental health: a mixed-methods study among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic

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“…The porosity of the border makes life easier for Haitians, but it also symbolises a long‐standing historical problem of cross‐border relations and economic inequality (Augelli ; Derby and Turits ; Derby ; Martínez , ; Turits ; Bartlett et al . ). Although economic and bureaucratic barriers to entry are low, the border incorporates power relations that impact upon unfettered mobility.…”

Section: Mobile Bordersmentioning

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The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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Taylor

2014

Australian J of Anthropology

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This article draws upon recent work among Haitian migrants living at the Haitian-Dominican border in order to examine the role of mobile phones in cross-border movement in the region. Like other migrants and displaced populations, Haitians use technologies such as mobile phones to keep in touch with their families and maintain social relations as well as organising economic activities and the circulation of remittances. Yet the dependence of Haitian workers on geographic mobility for work and livelihood also requires developing and maintaining relationships across borders. The focus upon understanding relationships formed within and beyond the southern border region of Haiti and the Dominican Republic seeks to make ethnographically visible the role of the mobile phone in mediating different forms of mobility.

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State literacies and inequality: Managing Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space

Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space

Perceived discrimination, humiliation, and mental health: a mixed-methods study among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic

The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings: A study of Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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