Dominican Republic: Life on the Margins
Up to a million Haitians, and descendants of Haitians, are being affected by a new law about citizenship in the Dominican Republic. Many could face deportation, despite being born in the country.
A change to the Dominican Republic's constitution has left many residents of Haitian descent lacking citizenship and in a state of legal limbo.
Dominican human rights activists lobby for government attention to unrecognized Haitian hardships.
A change to the Dominican Republic's Constitution, which denies citizenship to children born to undocumented residents, has put into doubt the legal status of people of Haitian descent.
When Haitians cross into the Dominican Republic to work, they often lack official documents that can help protect them from abuse. That's where Johnny Rivas steps in.
As many as 1 million Haitian migrants have long provided cheap labor in the Dominican Republic. But this often marginalized population faces racism and exploitation.
Nuns open new doors for Dominican sex workers, offering entrepreneurship training and medical assistance.
The victims of shifting borders, politics, or the happenstance of birthplace, the world's 12 million stateless people and their need to become citizens are rising on the international human rights...
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - We did a lot of legwork for this reporting trip the last time we were in the Dominican Republic.
Steve and I are back in the Dominican Republic for part two of our reporting here. On this trip we want to delve into the tumultuous relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti – the two...
Signs of the earthquake in Haiti are everywhere in neighboring Dominican Republic.
Some of the most impoverished parts of the Dominican Republic are batayes - shantytowns that once housed sugar industry workers.
Mondays and Fridays are market days in Dajabon, the small frontier town in the northwest of the Dominican Republic on the border with Haiti.
HIV is one of the big problems facing Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
This is the first post of Living on the Margins: Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
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Stephanie Hanes is a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in more than a dozen national publications, including Smithsonian Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, Africa...
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Stephen Sapienza is an award-winning news and documentary producer who has covered a wide range of human security stories, including the HIV crisis in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, child...