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Author Shoaff, Jennifer L., 1974- author.

Title Borders of visibility : Haitian migrant women and the Dominican nation-state / Jennifer L. Shoaff
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Paradox of (In)Visibility -- Part I. Mobility -- 1. Afro-Caribbean Women â#x80;#x9C;On the Moveâ#x80;#x9D;: Historiographies of Gender, Race, and Trade -- 2. Mobile Livelihoods, Transborder Markets, and Gendered Geographies of Power -- 3. Fanm Vanyan: Making Place, Making Home in Batey Sol -- Part II. Containment -- 4. â#x80;#x9C;The Book of Foreignersâ#x80;#x9D;: The Race/Gender Contours of Documentation and Citizenship
5. The â#x80;#x9C;Beggar Motherâ#x80;#x9D;: Discursive Formations of â#x80;#x9C;Deviant Black Motherhoodâ#x80;#x9D; and the Racial Intimacies of Anti-Haitian Nationalism6. A Politics of Expendability: Deportation, Nativism, and State-Local Control -- Epilogue: â#x80;#x9C;When the Ground Falls Out Beneath Herâ#x80;#x9D;: Reflections on the (In)Visibility of Privilege -- Notes -- Glossary -- References
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 8, 2017)
Subject Haitians -- Dominican Republic -- Social conditions
Women, Black -- Dominican Republic -- Social conditions
Women immigrants -- Dominican Republic -- Social conditions
Racism -- Dominican Republic
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Emigration and immigration
Haitians -- Social conditions
Racism
Women, Black -- Social conditions
Women immigrants -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Haiti -- Emigration and immigration
Dominican Republic -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Dominican Republic
Haiti
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017014069
ISBN 9780817391584
0817391584