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EKO HAITI aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world about Haiti.

We understand that theses and dissertations are an often overlooked source of information for research and know by experience that they can be truly valuable.

Just like journal articles, conference proceedings, and other forms of literature, they present original research. Recently completed theses can provide “sneak previews” of ideas and findings that have yet to reach the public via other publication formats.

 

Citizens Without a Nation: The Construction of Haitian Illegality and Deportability in The Dominican Republic

Migrant “illegality” has increasingly become a popular topic in political debates around the world, but illegal populations are not random or self-generating, they are created and patterned (DeGenova 2002:422). Through the recent enforcement of new and existing immigration laws, the Dominican State has begun to move large populations of Haitian immigrants and their descendants into irregular or “illegal” immigration status.
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Haiti is a Sliding Land: Displacement, Community, and Humanitarianism in Post-Earthquake Port-Au-Prince

A Haitian proverb suggests that the country has long been a sliding land, a site of uncertainty and chronic catastrophe. On January 12, 2010, Haiti collapsed suddenly into sudden, telegenic disaster when a devastating earthquake hit its capital, Port-au-Prince, killing hundreds of thousands of people and destroying much of the city.
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Kilti
 Pyebwa,
 the
 Culture
 of
 Trees:
 The
Value
 of 
Local
 Knowledge
 in
 Coupled
Social‐Ecological
 Systems
 of
 Rural
 Haiti


Haiti’s area of forest cover has dropped from 80% to less than 2% since the arrival of foreign influence in 1492. Yet, Haitians remain closely intertwined with the environment, depending on trees for food, shade, building materials, medicine, and protection against hurricanes.
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Ending Slavery, Narrating Emancipation: Revolutionary Legacies in the French Anti-slavery Debate and “Silencing the Haitian Revolution”, 1814-1848

This dissertation examines the nineteenth-century French debate on slavery and emancipation by analyzing its engagement with the antislavery legacies of the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution. In revising the prior historiography’s preoccupation with the influence of the benchmark British example, it contends that the impacts of revolutionary abolition formed another vital factor in shaping French abolitionism and emancipation.
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Counter-narratives of the Diaspora: Haitian Musical Performance in World Beat Markets

This study will investigate the performance motivations of three Haitian musicians based in South Florida who use their artistic platforms to offer a version of their country omitted from dominant media projections of the country. This study focuses on narrative as a device that allows these musicians to offer counterstories against dominantly negative media projections that have real effects on Haitians.
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