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The Dominican Republic’s bateyes are home to approximately 30,000 people, mostly of Haitian descent, who provide cheap labor to multi-national sugar companies. These communities of workers and their families are among the poorest and most isolated in the Dominican Republic, and many lack basic necessities such as clean water, sanitation systems and access to health care and education. Batey residents, in addition to being treated as outsiders, are frequently denied residency and citizenship rights, resulting in further marginalization.