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Wang, Zhijun, Sara W. Erasmus, and Saskia M. van Ruth. "Preliminary Study on Tracing the Origin and Exploring the Relations between Growing Conditions and Isotopic and Elemental Fingerprints of Organic and Conventional Cavendish Bananas (Musa spp.)." Foods 10, no. 5 (May 8, 2021): 1021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10051021.
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The stable isotopic ratios and elemental compositions of 120 banana samples, Musa spp. (AAA Group, Cavendish Subgroup) cultivar Williams, collected from six countries (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Peru), were determined by isotope ratio mass spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Growing conditions like altitude, temperature, rainfall and production system (organic or conventional cultivation) were obtained from the sampling farms. Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed separation of the farms based on geographical origin and production system. The results showed a significant difference in the stable isotopic ratios (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O) and elemental compositions (Al, Ba, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Rb) of the pulp and peel samples. Furthermore, δ15N was found to be a good marker for organically produced bananas. A correlation analysis was conducted to show the linkage of growing conditions and compositional attributes. The δ13C of pulp and peel were mainly negatively correlated with the rainfall, while δ18O was moderately positively (R values ~0.5) correlated with altitude and temperature. A moderate correlation was also found between temperature and elements such as Ba, Fe, Mn, Ni and Sr in the pulp and peel samples. The PCA results and correlation analysis suggested that the differences of banana compositions were combined effects of geographical factors and production systems. Ultimately, the findings contribute towards understanding the compositional differences of bananas due to different growing conditions and production systems linked to a defined origin; thereby offering a tool to support the traceability of commercial fruits.
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Chin, Nancy, Ann Dozier, Zahira Quinones, Sergio Diaz, Emily Weber, Hector Almonte, Arisleyda Bautista, Kiran Raman, Scott McIntosh, and Deborah Ossip. "A qualitative study of tobacco use in eight economically disadvantaged Dominican Republic communities." Global Health Promotion 24, no. 4 (June 28, 2016): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975915626117.
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Understanding social conditions prior to intervention design can enhance tobacco control interventions. This paper describes formative research conducted in 2010 about tobacco use in eight economically disadvantaged Dominican Republic communities, four of which participated in a previous intervention study (2003–2008). A combined US-Dominican team used a rapid assessment process to collect qualitative social and cultural data on tobacco use, knowledge and attitudes; plus observations about social and policy factors, such as exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS), tobacco regulations, pregnancy, health care provider (HCP) practices and sustainability of the 2003–2008 intervention. This assessment found that tobacco use varied by age. While all ages typically used cigarettes, older adults used relatively more unprocessed tobacco, which is seen as less harmful and less addictive. Middle-aged smokers typically used commercial cigarettes, which are viewed as dangerous, addictive, expensive and offensive. Young adults reported avoiding smoking, but using relatively more smokeless tobacco. Smoking during pregnancy has reportedly decreased. SHS was viewed as harmful, although smoke-free homes were uncommon. HCPs discussed tobacco issues mostly for patients with tobacco-related conditions. Sustainability of the 2003–2008 intervention appeared to be linked to active Community Technology Centers with strong leadership, and community social capital. This information could be used to design better targeted interventions in these communities.
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van Rijn, Fédes, Ricardo Fort, Ruerd Ruben, Tinka Koster, and Gonne Beekman. "Does certification improve hired labour conditions and wageworker conditions at banana plantations?" Agriculture and Human Values 37, no. 2 (October 23, 2019): 353–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09990-7.
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Abstract Certification of banana plantations is widely used as a device for protecting and improving socio-economic conditions of wageworkers, including their incomes, working conditions and—increasingly—voice [related to labour relations and workplace representation]. However, to date, evidence about the effectiveness of certification in these domains is scarce. We collected detailed field data on (1) economic benefits for improving household income, (2) social benefits for labour practices, and (3) the voice of wageworkers focusing on identity and identification issues amongst wageworkers at Fairtrade certified banana plantations and comparable, non-certified plantations in the Dominican Republic. We used different types of regression models to identify significant relationships. Econometrical analysis of survey results complemented by field observations and outcomes from in-depth stakeholder interviews indicate that the impact of Fairtrade certification on wageworkers’ economic benefits is rather limited. However, the impact on the voice of wageworkers (job satisfaction, sense of ownership, trust), is more evident. On Fairtrade certified plantations workers are more satisfied with the course of life and better represented. Thus while the additional value of Fairtrade certification on primary wages seems limited, Fairtrade has relevant positive effects on the labour force, particularly by delivering in-kind benefits, offering a sense of job-security, improving voice and enabling private savings. Benefits of (Fairtrade) certification, but also other interventions with a similar purpose, might therefore not be discerned in terms of economic benefits such as wages or basic labour conditions that are under direct control of (inter)national law, but they should be identified in terms of social benefits and improved norms of conduct for wageworker engagement.
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Valdez, Juan R. "The iconization of Dominican Spanish in Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s linguistic texts." Spanish in Context 6, no. 2 (September 9, 2009): 176–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.6.2.02val.
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This study approaches Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s linguistic work on Dominican Spanish by situating it in the political context in which it emerged. Henríquez Ureña’s travels, work and publications encompass many parts of the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic. Linguists have generally tended to descriptively review Henríquez Ureña’s contributions to Spanish American dialectology and have avoided any critical examination of the conditions of production of his linguistic work. My study attempts to fill this gap by conducting a critical examination of these works against the relevant political, cultural and intellectual historical currents of the period. Specifically, I apply the semiotic concepts of ‘iconization’ and ‘erasure’ which are instrumental in the analysis of ideological phenomena. Iconization and erasure are language ideological processes that link language to social behavior and linguistic forms to social images, while eliminating or omitting sociolinguistic complexity. After a discussion of the ways in which these semiotic strategies have been employed and interpreted by scholars, I demonstrate Henríquez Ureña’s own implementation of them. I show how his linguistic work is a discursive site where race and identity in the Dominican Republic are both constructed and debated.
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Agha, Sohail, Mai Do, and Françoise Armand. "When Donor Support Ends: The Fate of Social Marketing Products and the Markets They Help Create." Social Marketing Quarterly 12, no. 2 (June 2006): 28–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15245000600678489.
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This article assesses the performance of social marketing interventions for oral contraceptives in Morocco and the Dominican Republic. These interventions were implemented under a model that has the potential to achieve sustainability; a donor-funded project partners with a manufacturer or distributor willing to market a contraceptive at a price lower than the prices of other commercial brands; the partnership makes it profitable for the commercial partner to continue the distribution and marketing of the contraceptive after donor support ceases. Multiple rounds of data from nationally representative surveys were analyzed to determine changes in the commercial sector share of oral contraceptives prior to and following the withdrawal of donor support. Particular attention was paid to changes in lower and middle income groups. In Morocco, the commercial sector share of oral contraceptives started increasing prior to the intervention and continued to do so after the withdrawal of donor support. These increases occurred for all women as well as for lower and middle income women. In the Dominican Republic, the commercial sector share of oral contraceptives increased among lower and middle income women during the period that social marketing activities were conducted and fluctuated in the period following withdrawal of donor support. The study suggests that if certain conditions are met, contraceptive social marketing interventions implemented under the manufacturer's model can contribute to a higher commercial sector share of a method among lower and middle income women and that these changes are sustainable after donor support has been withdrawn.
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García Frómeta, Yokasta, Letzai Ruiz Valero, and Jesús Cuadrado Rojo. "Indoor temperature and relative humidity assessment of three construction systems for Dominican social housing in different micro-climates: A modelling study." Indoor and Built Environment 28, no. 5 (August 9, 2018): 693–710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326x18792968.
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This paper evaluates the indoor temperature and relative humidity of three construction systems in a Dominican social housing scheme, located in different micro-climates present in the Dominican Republic (DR). For the latter, we used DesignBuilder to model the most common type of social housing (S1). In addition, we have also modelled two other improved construction systems (S2 and S3), which have been the result of two different studies, which were conducted in DR. The simulations were carried out in 10 cities. These cities belong to the following five micro-climates: tropical wet Savanna, tropical wet rainforest, tropical wet jungle, dry semiarid and wet temperate. In this article, we have evaluated the construction systems’ performance in the context of thermal conditions inherent to DR. The latter has been done to verify which of the evaluated construction systems is the most adequate for each micro-climate. For this, we determined the average operating interior temperatures and relative humidities for each construction system. We conclude that Samples S2 and S3 show the lowest temperatures in warm climates, while Sample S1 shows improved performance in colder climates. S1 exhibits the lowest values of relative humidities, followed by S3, while S2 presents the highest values.
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Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo, Ali R. Chaudhary, and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen. "Migrants’ transnational political engagement in Spain and Italy." Migration Studies 7, no. 3 (October 31, 2017): 281–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnx061.
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AbstractInternational migrants’ cross-border political activities challenge singular notions of national citizenship and political belonging. Yet most sociological studies of migrants’ transnational political engagement are based on single national groups in the USA, and limit themselves to examining how assimilation and contexts of reception determine migrants’ propensity to engage with homeland politics—thereby under theorizing the influence of origin countries. This study moves beyond this approach by recognizing the multi-directionality of migration, and testing the applicability of existing theoretical approaches across two different origins and receiving contexts. We compare a sample of Colombian and Dominican migrants in Spain and Italy, analyzing how contexts in countries of origin, as well as migrants’ social networks across borders, interact with assimilation and contexts of reception to determine migrants’ political transnational engagement. Findings reveal migrants’ transnational political engagement in Spain and Italy appears to be a highly selective process dominated by a small minority of well-educated males from high social status in origin. Findings also suggest immigrant incorporation and transnational political engagement form a dialectical relationship operating at different scales that is simultaneously complementary and contradictory. Contextual conditions in origin countries explain observed much of variation in Colombian and Dominican migrants’ transnational political engagement.
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Pradilla, Gonzalo, Georg Lamberty, and Johannes Hamhaber. "Hydromorphological and socio-cultural assessment of urban rivers to promote nature-based solutions in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic." Ambio 50, no. 8 (June 1, 2021): 1414–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01565-3.
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AbstractIn Latin America and the Caribbean, river restoration projects are increasing, but many lack strategic planning and monitoring. We tested the applicability of a rapid visual social–ecological stream assessment method for restoration planning, complemented by a citizen survey on perceptions and uses of blue and green infrastructure. We applied the method at three urban streams in Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic) to identify and prioritize preferred areas for nature-based solutions. The method provides spatially explicit information for strategic river restoration planning, and its efficiency makes it suitable for use in data-poor contexts. It identifies well-preserved, moderately altered, and critically impaired areas regarding their hydromorphological and socio-cultural conditions, as well as demands on green and blue infrastructure. The transferability of the method can be improved by defining reference states for assessing the hydromorphology of tropical rivers, refining socio-cultural parameters to better address river services and widespread urban challenges, and balancing trade-offs between ecological and social restoration goals.
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Borromeo-Buehler, Soledad. "The Inquilinos of Cavite: A Social Class in Nineteenth-Century Philippines." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 16, no. 1 (March 1985): 69–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400012777.
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Studies about Philippine colonial class structure are singularly scant. With the exception of Scott's work on the sixteenth century, no effort has yet been made to shed light upon the problem of how Philippine society had been stratified during the long span of the Spanish and American regimes. This paper tries to describe and analyze the manner in which a segment of nineteenth-century Philippine society was structured, and offers a conceptualization of what constituted a provincial “social class” at the time by looking at the role of the inquilino (leaseholders of agricultural land) in Caviteño society. Specifically, it (a) rejects the idea that native Filipino society was composed of only two social strata: a tiny upper stratum and a mass of uniformly poor population; (b) and implies that the native class structure was far from having been static during the Spanish regime. Due to limitations in the sources, no attempt has been made to trace in an evolutionary manner the development of the inquilinos as a social class. The study deals mainly with the Dominican hacienda town of Naic, although less detailed information on other municipalities like Imus, Bacoor, Kawit, Santa Cruz de Malabon, and San Francisco de Malabon suggest the existence of similar conditions that could have fostered the development of an intermediate social class composed largely of inquilinos.
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Pinnock, Fritz, Ibrahim Ajagunna, and Sandra Casanova. "Analysis of market conditions for logistics services and tourism: a Caribbean perspective." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9, no. 1 (February 13, 2017): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-11-2016-0065.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is an assessment of logistics services and tourism infrastructure in the Caribbean. The objective is to examine the efficiency and competitiveness of the logistics and tourism environment in the region. Design/methodology/approach Given the low levels of implementation of logistics services in Barbados and Jamaica, this study is exploratory, and it is hoped that future studies can build on this assessment of Barbados and Jamaica, and by extension the Caribbean. Findings Governments across the Caribbean need to recognize that the development of an effective logistics industry rests with improved technology, a proper legislative framework, the development of competent human resources and modern infrastructure development. Research limitations/implications The study was limited to Barbados and Jamaica, and so it is not representative of the rest of the Caribbean, as economies like Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic have stronger trans-shipment and cruise tourism activities. Practical implications With the low pace of logistics development in the Caribbean, the demand for logistic services, which involve planning, managing and executing the movement of goods and information within global supply chains, will continue to be largely by firms’ desire to outsource some or all logistics-related activities to specialists. Social implications The need to plan for the development of a competent and certified pool of human resources to support the development of a logistics and tourism industry is critical. This therefore requires the development of specialized skills, knowledge and the competence of a flexible and agile workforce. Originality/value The focus on Barbados and Jamaica provide an adequate picture of the logistics markets and regulatory frameworks in different contexts of the Caribbean, including an economy directly connected with the global marketplace with a relatively diversified product structure, and another less extensively connected and diversified product structure.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Dominica – Social conditions"
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Seller, Robbyn. ""Ever since I know myself..." : questions of self, gender, and nation in a Dominican village." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19533.
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This goal of this study is to discern the ways in which women's subjectivities have changed through the processes of decolonisation, modernization, and nation building between the 1930s and 2000 in rural Dominica. The relationship between the shifting conditions of colonial and postcolonial life in its material, political, social, and cultural aspects, and the change in the discourses that relate to proper behaviour (moral discourses) are examined. I have explored the ways in which women position themselves with relation to these discourses (which could be called moral discourses), through how they employ them in their representations, and how they negotiate them, engaging them in the creation of what could be called an 'ethics of self.' The research, carried out over a one-year period in the village of La Plaine in Eastern Dominica, involved participant observation in the village; life history interviews with women of three generations; the analysis of skits and pageants; and documentary research involving primary and secondary sources. Several discursive themes emerged in the analyses: women's use of accounts of the past to critique the present, in what I have called critical nostalgia; the change in values epitomized by the notion of respect that formed the basis of local relations and which has begun to disappear with the change in governance and economic relations; the ambivalences involved in gender relations, especially those associated with expectations of women towards men and women's autonomy from men that derive from historical circumstances of colonization and decolonization; and the celebration and discursive dissemination of values that associate femininity with the political entity that Dominica has become. Differences found between women's expressions in both the discourses they engaged with, and in the particular ways they used them to frame their experiences, were related mainly to age and socio-historical changes, but also to socio-economic background.
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Adams, Gregory L. "LDS, Catholic and Secular Perspectives on Development in the Dominican Republic." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1994. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,3890.
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Fradet, Louise. "L'émergence d'une nouvelle réalité du travail féminin au sein de la culture féminine : l'exemple d'un groupe de travailleuses de la Dominion Textile de Montmorency au Québec de 1920 à 1960." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/17829.
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Moulin, Marie-Anne. "Argentan au Moyen Âge : aspects urbains, sociaux et économiques." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0145.
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La richesse des sources disponibles éclaire le développement de la ville d'Argentan, de sa naissance comme bourg castral contrôlant un carrefour et un guet de l'Orne, jusqu'à la fin de l'époque médiévale. Elle autorise à décrire les paysages urbains, à connaître l'évolution politique, les structures sociales et l'économie de cette petite ville normande. Dans ce contexte, les différents pouvoirs en présence - seigneurs, communauté urbaine et fabriques - matérialisent leur influence dans le bâti - château, murailles, églises et hôtels-Dieu, objets de travaux constants du XIIIe au XVe siècles. L'organisation des chantiers, de la décision à la mise en œuvre, varie en fonction de l'institution donneuse d'ordre. Les processus décisionnels, la direction et le suivi des travaux sont exposés pour les chantiers religieux, hospitaliers et castraux. La question des matériaux - approvisionnement, origine et qualités -permet de conclure à une bonne exploitation des ressources locales. Les artisans du bâtiment, majoritairement originaires des environs, font preuve d'une grande polyvalence et d'une bonne maîtrise technique transmise au sein de l'atelier familialThe important archives available allow to explain the development of the city of Argentan, from its beginning as a castle controlling a cross roads and the river Orne, till the end of the middle Ages. They also permit to knovv the political évolution, the social structures and the economy of this small Normandy city. In that context, the different local institutions - lords, urban organisation and parishes -become real through buildings - castle, city walls, churches and hospitals, always rebuilt from the 13* to the 15 century. The organisation of those works depends on the institution which is building. The decision, the direction and the following of those works are explained for churches, hospitals and the castle. The question of materials - how they are chosen and moved to the building area, where they are from, which quality - permit to discover a good exploitation of local resources. Building workers. Mainly from the close area, are able to work on différent kind of buildings and to do very different operations on the building and also have good technical capacities, learned in the family
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Duran, Jacquelyn Nely. "Living the American Dream? Second Generation Dominican High School Students in a Diverse Suburban Community." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8NW119Q.
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My dissertation examines second generation Dominican high school students and their parents in a diverse, middle-class suburb. At a moment when immigrant families are arriving directly to suburban locations, and the number of second generation immigrants in our public schools is growing, it is important to examine how they are making sense of their experiences in this new context. In my study, I consider how one sub-group of Latinx high school students, with at least one parent born in the Dominican Republic, are experiencing a new place. Specifically, I look at their experiences within their community, school and family influence their assimilation processes, their ideas about future success, and the role of education in reaching that success. I also explore how the parents’ experiences in this community inform their definitions of success for their children and the role that education plays in achieving it, and how those beliefs affect their children. I examine the parents’ accounts through in-depth interviews and the students’ accounts through pre and post in-depth interviews two years apart, as well as photo elicitation interviews.
I found that the location of this suburb, adjacent to an ethnic enclave, provides a context that supports the process of selective acculturation, whereby the students are learning English and American customs while also developing and maintaining their Dominican cultural practices, including speaking Spanish. I also uncovered nuances to their understanding of the role of education in securing future success, through the use of open-ended questions. I found that the students with college-educated parents were more cautious about believing in the American Dream, and the idea that education guarantees success. Despite this, all of the families in the study approached education in similar ways, a style typically attributed to low-income families. And lastly, I found that the families lacked the social and cultural capital to gain educational advantages, specifically in the college application process. My study challenges the assumption that immigrant families arriving to middle-class suburbs are equipped to take advantage of the resources that their place of residence can afford them. Living in this type of place signals an achievement of the American Dream, but we have to question whether their children will be able to maintain it.
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Foster, Robert K. G. "An imaginary dominion : the representation and treatment of Aborigines in South Australia, 1834-1911 / Robert Foster." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21336.
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Bibliography : leaves 351-380xxii, 380 [37] leaves : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of History, 1994?
Books on the topic "Dominica – Social conditions"
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Christian, Henckell Lochinvar. Gatecrashing into the unknown: A Dominica journal. Roseau, Dominica: Act Press, 1992.
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Ideologías agrarias y lucha social en la República Dominica (1961-1980). Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 1986.
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Andre, Irving W. In search of Eden: Dominica, the travails of a Caribbean mini-state. Upper Marlboro, Md: Pond Casse Press, 1992.
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Centring the periphery: Chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
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Centring the periphery: Chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica. Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies, 1994.
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Bachata: A social history of a Dominican popular music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
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Watch, Human Rights. "Illegal people": Haitians and Dominico-Haitians in the Dominican Republic. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2002.
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Abréu, Roberto Marcallé. La comunidad dominicana en el exterior: El desafío de la década. [Santo Domingo, República Dominicana?]: Marcallé Abréu, 1986.
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Mohammed, Patricia. Caribbean women at the crossroads: The paradox of motherhood among women of Barbados, St. Lucia and Dominica. Mona, Jamaica: Canoe Press, University of the West Indies, 1999.
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Rosario, Raúl Martínez. Puerto Rico, una ruta incierta al norte: La travesía en yola. [Santo Domingo: s.n.], 1993.
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Viroli, Maurizio. "The Prerequisites of Servitude." In The Liberty of Servants, translated by Antony Shugaar. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691151823.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on servitude. Although Italian history has had moments and examples of moral greatness and a sincere love of liberty, for many centuries it has been a history of servitude, variously in thrall to foreign masters, despotic governments, and the spiritual and temporal dominion of a church that employed both the word and alongside it the sword and the gallows; at times the Italians have been oppressed by all three at once. Indeed, a long familiarity with servitude has shaped Italian mores, which—it is well known—constitute the most tenacious of all social forces. The principal trait of the servile soul is how little respect it has for itself and for others. Even if it may seem strange, servants have no self-respect; they sense that they have little worth and so they willingly accept their condition. This lack of self-respect brings with it indifference, which, in turn, generates a full and continuous cynicism.