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Umd Law Students Travel To Haiti On Fact-Finding Trip, Irene Scharf, Justin Steele
Umd Law Students Travel To Haiti On Fact-Finding Trip, Irene Scharf, Justin Steele
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During spring break Professor Irene Scharf, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the UMass School of Law in Dartmouth accompanied a group of UMass law students to the Dominican Republic to engage in fact-finding about the conditions of Haitians in the country. This piece was written by Scharf and Justin Steele, executive articles editor of the UMass Law Review.
Your View: The Stateless State Of Caribbean Residents, Irene Scharf
Your View: The Stateless State Of Caribbean Residents, Irene Scharf
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On the Caribbean island of Hispanola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, grave human rights concerns affecting those of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic have recently erupted. Over the years, thousands of Haitians have come to the Dominican Republic to work the farms there and provide cheap construction and other manual labor. Recently, with the economic and natural disasters that have befallen Haiti, more Haitians have been arriving in the Dominican Republic. Many have put down roots and are raising families. Today, an estimated 200,000 people born in the Dominican Republic have parents who were born in …