Abstract

PALACIOS VALENCIA, Yennesit. ¿IMMIGRANTS, REPRESENTATION OF EVIL? REGARDING HAITI AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Prolegómenos [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.34, pp.162-182. ISSN 0121-182X.  https://doi.org/10.18359/dere.812.

The stigma thatchaseshundreds of immigrants is the idea of evil incarnation, fobotypewhichlasts in currentdecadesdespite the arbitrariness made clearalonghistory.Regardingthissubject, the hard disputes settled down sincepastdecades in the caribbeanregions of DominicanRepublic and Haitiwillbeanalyzed in thiswriting, becauseirreconcilable tensions have grown and this has produced the unacknowledgement of humanrights on haitian descendants for belonging to the group of "weird-blacks", synonym of uneasiness. This conclusion derivesfrom the appreciation of immigration as a dangerousphenomenonbecause of the presence of certain social circlecategorized as "enemy".Therefore, the objective is to makeclear how humanrights of some people are violatedwhenthey are stigmatized for belonging to a group; today, thisphenomenonhappens in a paradigmaticwaywith immigration. Lines thatbeginwith a qualitative investigation of historical-analytic nature,because a review to the pastisnecessary in order to establish relations of cause-effect and connect the factorswhichtake to the continuity of stereotypesthat have motivated the application ex post facto of ruleswithdevastatingretroactiveeffects.

Keywords : Humanrights; Haiti; DominicanRepublic; immigrants; enemy; evil.

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