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050 00 $aHD5856.H2$bM37 1995
082 00 $a331.6/2729407293$220
100 1 $aMartínez, Samuel,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95018094
245 10 $aPeripheral migrants :$bHaitians and Dominican Republic sugar plantations /$cSamuel Martinez.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aKnoxville :$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9510
300 $axix, 228 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Origins of Demand --$g2.$tMobilizing Labor --$g3.$tThe Setting --$g4.$tPoverty, Labor Circulation, and the Reproduction of Rural Livelihoods --$g5.$tThe Impact on the Home Area --$g6.$tMigrants and Stay-at-Homes: Women and Labor Circulation --$g7.$tViejos and Congoses --$g8.$tMigration in Global Perspective --$tPostscript: An Afterthought on Method --$tAppendix A. Migration History Interview Schedule, Haiti, 1987 --$tAppendix B. Schematized Migration Histories of Twenty Men.
520 $aPeripheral Migrants examines the circulation of labor from rural Haiti to the sugar estates of the Dominican Republic and its impact on the lives of migrants and their kin. The first such study to draw on community-based fieldwork in both countries, the book also shows how ethnographic and historical approaches can be combined to reconstruct patterns of seasonal and repeat migration.
520 8 $aSamuel Martinez pays close attention to the economic maneuvers Haitians adopt on both sides of the border as they use Dominican money to meet their present needs and to assure future subsistence at home in Haiti. The emigrants who adapt best, he finds, are those who maintain close ties to their home areas.
520 8 $aYet, in addition to showing how rural Haitians survive under severe poverty and oppression, Martinez reveals the risks they incur by crossing the border as cane workers: divided families, increased short-term deprivation and economic insecurity, and, all too often, early death. He further notes that labor circulation is not part of an unchanging cycle in rural Haiti but a source of income that is vulnerable to the downturns in the global economy.
520 8 $a. Acknowledging various theoretical perspectives, the author compares the Haitian migrations with similar population displacements worldwide. As he shows, the Haitian workers exemplify an important, if seldom studied, category of migrants - those who neither move to the cities nor emigrate to countries of the North but circulate between rural areas of the Third World. Thus, this book serves to broaden our understanding of this "lower tier" of the world's migrants.
650 0 $aForeign workers, Haitian$zDominican Republic.
650 0 $aMigrant agricultural laborers$zHaiti.
650 0 $aSugar workers$zDominican Republic.
852 00 $bleh$hHD5856.H2$iM37 1995