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Shoaff, Jennifer Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research sterns from twelve months of ethnographic research with Haitian migrant women who reside in "Batey Sol", a former sugar-company labor camp located along the "Linea Noroeste" (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabon with the urban center of Santiago. The multi-sited study considers…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Pomeroy, Carlton; Jacob, Steve – Social Indicators Research, 2004
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have been trying to help developing countries speed up economic growth in order to help eradicate poverty. In the last two decades these policies in the Dominican Republic have caused rapid and severe changes. Over the last two centuries Dominican culture has faced numerous challenges…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Unskilled Workers, Service Occupations