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reading and references

Recommendations for further reading

• Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola. A book by Michele Wucker. Published in 1999 by Hill and Wang.



• "Illegal People: Haitians and Dominico-Haitians in the Dominican Republic". A Human Rights Watch Report. From website: www.hrw.org



• "Beyond the Bateyes," a report from the National Coalition for Haitian Rights. From website: www.nchr.org/reports/bateyes.pdf.



• "Migration in the Caribbean: Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Beyond." From Minority Rights Group website Publications section: www.minorityrights.org



• "Needed but Unwanted: Haitian Immigrants and their families in the Dominican Republic," by the Catholic Institute for International Relations. From website: www.ciir.org



• "Situation of Haitian Migrant Workers and Their Families in the Dominican Republic." Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States. From website: www.cidh.org.



• "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001: Dominican Republic." US Department of State. From website: www.state.gov.



• Bernier, Barbara "Sugar Cane Slavery: Bateyes in the Dominican Republic" A panel discussion. New Eng. J. Int'l & Comp. L.. Vol 9:1, pgs 17-46. From website: www.nesl.edu/intljournal/vol9/bernier.pdf.

Website references

(1) Lee, Sang "2003 CLAS Summer Research Report: Haitian Immigrants in the Dominican Republic" Environmental Science, Policy and Management Department, UC-Berkeley. From website: www.clas.berkeley.edu.

(2) Facts obtained from the Batey Relief Alliance's first International Conference, entitled "Dominican's Bateyes: A new reality," held at the United Nations on February 28th, 2001. From website: www.bateyrelief.org.

(3) Survey titled "Diagnostico Preliminar de Salud en Nueve Bateyes Ubicados en el Distrito Nacional y la Provincia de Monte Plata" by Movimiento Socio-Cultural de los Trabajadores Haitainos (Santo Domingo, December 1995). From pg 34 citation in "Beyond the Bateyes" (see below).

(4) Reaching Out, Volume 23 "Haitians living in the Dominican Republic receive relief." From website: www.ippfwhr.org.

(5) "Illegal People: Haitians And Dominico-Haitians In The Dominican Republic." Human Rights Watch Report. From website www.hrw.org.

(6) "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001: Dominican Republic." Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Department. From website: www.state.gov.

(7) "Socioeconomic and Health Survey of the CEA's Bateyes Mother and Child Population". From website: www.bateyrelief.org, "Our Work" section.

(8) "Beyond the Bateyes: Haitian Immigrants in the Dominican Republic," National Coalition for Haitian Rights. From www.nchr.org.

(9) "Needed but Unwanted: Haitian Immigrants and their families in the Dominican Republic," Catholic Institute for International Relations. From website: www.ciir.org.

(10) Batey Relief Alliance. From website: www.bateyrelief.org.

(11) GSC Quarterly, Summer 2002; "Solidarity with the struggle of the Dominican minority of Haitian descent for citizenship and justice." Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA). From website: www.ssrc.org.

(12) "As AIDS Ravages Carribean, Governments Confront Denial." May, 2003 New York Times. From website: www.nytimes.com.

(13) Yanguela, Argelia Tejeda. "Bateyes del Estado: Encuesta Socioeconomica y de Salud de la Población Materno-Infantil de los Bateyes Agrícolas del CEA", Diciembre 1999.