Haitian deportation proceedings in the United States and the Dominican Republic

Abstract

The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 was the trigger for a new phase of Haitian emigration that has found new destinations and new deportation processes. The main objective of this article is to analyze the deportations of Haitian citizens that have recently occurred in the United States and the Dominican Republic. In the first case, the deportation came as a consequence of the large number of Haitian asylum seekers to the United States who arrived to Mexican cities located on the northern border around 2016. In the second case, in 2013, the deportation was the effect of the denial of Dominican nationality to people of Haitian descent. This research is based on the analysis of governmental, academic, journalistic information and on interviews with key informants, which reveal that in both countries there were massive deportations of Haitians