Migration To Haiti

It was February 10, 2004 when my family left the Dominican Republic and came to the United States the country they believe was the land of prosperity. I was only 14 years old when I left my country and came to New York. I had left the warm climate and had come to a very cold place where it felt below 20 degrees. I was so scared when I arrived to this new place; the people look very different from where I came from.

Little Haiti, also known as Lemon City, is a neighborhood within the Miami-Dade County metropolitan area. It is located in the Northeast quadrant of the county. Its parameters are approximately delineated by NE 86th Street on the North side, I-195 on the South side, I-95 on the West side and US 1 on the East side. It encompasses the postal zip codes 33127, 33137, 33138, and 33150. Its surrounding neighborhoods are El Portal to the North, Midtown to the South, Liberty City to the West and Morningside to the East (Urban Mapping, 2011). According to 2010 census estimates, the approximate population of Little Haiti is 28,312 people living

Haiti, located on the Island of Hispaniola between Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, shares the island with the Dominican Republic. With a population of seven million and an area of 10, 714 square miles, it is about the size of Maryland. The capital and largest city, Port-Au-Prince, has a population of more than 800,000 (Factsheet, 2003). The per capita annual income is $ 248, with a daily wage rate of three dollars.

In writing my Research paper on "the Haitian immigration" had several fortresses, among these: I am Dominican, share half of the island with the Haitian brothers, I grew up always looking the Haitian themes and I am interested to publicize the because they migrate toward my cream Dominican Republic. I certainly think that the factors such as poverty, hunger, lack of employment, the lack of basic services as well as the problems in education are highly potential factors that would lead to any citizen to leave their homeland in search of better opportunities. It is impressed of many things that even State so close to them unaware, as for example living on less than $2 dollars per day, that they do their physiological bags needs and launch it

Growing up in Haiti has strengthen my survival instinct at an early age. With barely enough to eat, we was dying one by one. Medicine and treatment was very rare for us. Imagine dying from a simple cold due to the fact that aspirin and cough medicine was foreign to us. I recall walking around wishing for better days or looking for ways to help. And I remember being told I was coming to America. America, the place where even the most impossible dreams come true. America, where education is free and very beneficial. Regardless of how young I was, I knew with every fiber in my little body that I would try my hardest to be successful in America. Unable to speak english, school become a challenge. But to all my teachers surprise it took me less

This article discusses the history of immigration policies between the United States and Haiti and the consequences of these policies. On September 22, 2016 the Obama administration made the drastic decision to close its doors to Haitian migrants. The administration announced that it would tighten its immigration policy on Haitians, limiting the amount of refugees that would enter. Which was a drastic change from their 2010 immigration policy that open its doors to the Haitian refugees. This new policy affected many migrating Haitian who where just days from their immigration appointments. The article recalls personal experiences about the racism and the dangers Haitians face throughout the journey. Also describing the poor conditions immigrants

The haitian people ever since the haitian revolution has been the beacon of hope for the people of the Caribbean, they led the first successful revolution to completely free themselves from European rule under the French in 1804. As a result of their victory many european nations I guess you can say as a form of retribution  placed economic sanctions on the little island and forced the haitian people to pay France reparations for the losses accrued during the Haitian Revolution. Haiti once the beacon of hope and the wealthiest nation in the Caribbean had now become the poorest country in western hemisphere.

Hello friends and family, I just got back from my trip to Haiti and Florida and am so excited to tell you all about my experiences in both places!

There is a sentiment that the United states occupation in Haiti brought some good to the country. “The notion that there were indispensable nation-building benefits to this occupation falls short” A quote from an article published by Edwige Danticat a Haitian historian , scholar , and entertainer . In this article published ith nEw worker , Danticat argues that the United states goodness in Hait fall short because these infrastructure which was built were from the forced labor of those kidnapped Haitians Many scholars like Laurent Dubois, Charles Arthur and MichaelDash also share that sentiment. The United States government is still the determinant voice in Haiti’s politics in the economy. After the marines

While I was growing up, I lived in many places. I was born in Budapest, Hungary and lived there until my father finished his medical degree when I was two years old. Soon after, for financial reasons, my family and I moved to the United States. First we lived in Missouri for five years, next we moved to North Carolina to be closer to our family. Periodically we returned to Hungary to visit relatives. With each visit, I learned more and more about Hungary, the language, and European culture. Luckily my mother had the wisdom to take my brothers and I back to Hungary to do a year of schooling there. That single year expanded my perspective of the world, it was no longer the United States as a separate entity from the rest of the world, but it

The manners which Haiti can propose that could more effectively involve its Diaspora in its strategic development process are. First, is to better educate the people who doesn’t know Haiti about the culture, and past history just to better understand the roots of all things. For example, give tours to past historical place, explains why things are come about when it comes to our food, the way we functions, and the way we do things, and understand the meaning of our culture. Another way Haiti can help their Diaspora and the people of Haiti is By open more jobs and education it will cause less manifestation, kids, parents, and older people would go to school have a career and be able to have a job in the field of their studies and parents would

Moving to America was a significant personal experience. When I was just in at the age of eight, I did not really care for our emigration from our country as I was just a boy not knowing the different ways it was going to affect me. I thought it was just going to be a change of scenery and not much else but boy was I wrong. The setting, culture, and people were so different from what I was used to. I was used to not wearing shoes in people’s house, seeing mountains in the horizons instead of skyscrapers, and being surrounded by family and I had to do something abouts this feeling of unfamiliarity. What I did was what anyone else would do when trying to

"Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries." – Baldwin Spencer

The 19th century Arab migration has traditionally been regarded as the most prosperous era for economic development in Haiti. However, the impact of Haiti’s merchant elite and the totalitarian regimes led by the Duvalier family from 1957 until 1986, suppressed the region’s Arab communities, which consequently ignited racial-discrimination and economic downtown for the majority Haitian population. Despite U.S. military intervention and support for Haiti’s Arab communities, the region’s government continued to spread their mercantile ideologies, by controlling the entire nation’s wealth and income of Arab immigrants. The impacts of the 2010 earthquake and more recent Hurricane Matthew that penetrated Haiti in 2016, forced more economic problems

Although, I have been taught to always be grateful for what I have, at times this was tough. My life in America began when I was two years old, and my family: my mother, my father, and I came to America. I was too young to remember anything, my father left our family of three that same year. Until I was six years old, I didn't know his face, his voice, his touch. When I went to school with my friends I felt different from them even at the young age of six. To me it seemed, they had everything: a family, a house, and a place among society. I, on the other hand, had no family members in America, lived in government housing in the urban poor, and struggled to relate to the American culture. To say I felt jealous would be an understatement.I felt