The Uses of Children : A Study of Trafficking in Haitian Children

By Smucker, Glenn R.

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Title:	The Uses of Children : A Study of Trafficking in Haitian Children
Author:	Smucker, Glenn R.
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Language:	English
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Excerpt: Purpose. This study documents a series of insidious forms of child abuse affecting Haitian children in their own country and in the neighboring Dominican Republic. The overriding Purpose: of the study is to document evidence of trafficking within Haiti and ...

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface...............................................................................................................................i Acronyms.......................................................................................................................... ii Table of Contents .............................................................................................................. iii Chapter I. Introduction ........................................................................................................1 Purpose.........................................................................................................................1 The Concept of Trafficking .............................................................................................1 Research Domain..........................................................................................................2 The Literature .................................................................................................................3 Smuggling and Trafficking..............................................................................................4 Research Methodology...................................................................................................5 Guiding Questions..........................................................................................................7 Fieldwork Sites ...............................................................................................................7 The Report....................................................................................................................10 Chapter II. Childhood in Peril............................................................................................11 Historical Background ..................................................................................................11 Attitudes towards Children ...........................................................................................11 Rural Sector in Crisis ...................................................................................................14 Giving and Taking Children...........................................................................................14 How Many Children Live Outside the Home?...............................................................15 Cross-Border Migration of Children..............................................................................18 Haitians in the Dominican Republic .............................................................................19 Chapter III. Children Living with Others............................................................................21 Lexicon of Child Placement..........................................................................................21 Views of Children Sent to Live with Others..................................................................24 Inter-Household Arrangements ....................................................................................26 Class Dynamics...........................................................................................................28 Other Categories of Child Placement ..........................................................................30 Coming of Age..............................................................................................................33 Continuum of Children Living with Others....................................................................35 Trafficking .....................................................................................................................36 Indicators of Children at Risk .......................................................................................37 Chapter IV. Child Labor, the Border, and Trafficking .......................................................39 Child Labor in Haiti........................................................................................................39 The Border....................................................................................................................41 Localities near the Border ............................................................................................45 Miigrants and Smugglers..............................................................................................51 Trafficking and Abuse...................................................................................................62 Chapter V. Haitians in the Dominican Republic ...............................................................65 General Overview.........................................................................................................65 Haitians in the Dominican economy.............................................................................68 How do Haitians cross the border?..............................................................................68 Haitians in the Hands of Dominican Soldiers...............................................................69 Haitian Children and the State: The Laws of the lands ................................................70 Chapter VI. Haitian Children in Dominican Homes ..........................................................78 The Dominican Child Placement System ....................................................................78 Comparing Haitian RestavŠk with Dominican Hijo de Crianza....................................82 The Placement of Haitian Children in Dominican Homes............................................85 Chapter VII. Cane Fields and Residential Bateyes ..........................................................90