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Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Haitian Refugees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gilburt Loescher  and
John Scanlan
Gilburt Loescher
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame
John Scanlan
Affiliation:
Indiana University Law School at Bloomington
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Haitians have been migrating to the United States in significant numbers since the rise to power of Francois Duvalier over a quarter century ago. A few who have been able to meet the strict eligibility criteria of U. S. immigration law have entered as legal immigrants. Perhaps as many as 300,000 others have entered illegally, or have overstayed the terms of their temporary visas. A diverse population composed of professionals and businessmen, students and shopkeepers, journalists, small land holders, and illiterate peasants, it is impossible to capture their individual reasons for leaving Haiti and coming to the United States in a single all-inclusive phrase.

Haiti is the poorest country in this hemisphere. Nearly all who leave to come to the United States are aware that they are trading malnutrition, negligible educational opportunities, and a subsistence standard of living for the greater opportunities afforded by life in America.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , August 1984 , pp. 313 - 356
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Copyright © University of Miami 1984

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