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Chaffee, Sue. "The survival strategies of Haitian immigrant women." FIU Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2101.
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Eugene, Pierre Ph D. Lucien. "Psychosocial Impacts on Young Adult Haitian Immigrant Students in the United States." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5700.
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Many young adult Haitian immigrant students (YAHIS) move to the United States
hoping to achieve better lives. This growing population faces many challenges when
acculturating to a new country and educational system. Some obstacles include
inadequate family and social support, language barriers, limited education, distinct
cultural values, a lack of academic materials, a shortage of Haitian teachers, and
inadequate educational programs. These psychosocial factors often prevent Haitian
immigrants from succeeding in U.S. schools. This study explored YAHIS' experiences of
acculturation and education as they relate to these psychosocial factors. Qualitative
phenomenological techniques, guided by Adlerian theory, revealed the assumptions,
meanings, and feelings of the study participants via in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 10 YAHIS. Key findings included the identification of common themes regarding critical factors for academic success: (a) family support; (b) role of culture; (c) educational opportunities; (d) challenges of acculturation; (e) questioning of self-identify; and (f) personal attitude. These findings may inform schools, universities, and professionals who seek to assist YAHIS acculturate and succeed in the U.S. educational system. The study findings may facilitate positive social change by enabling scholars, school psychologists, educators, and family members to help YAHIS integrate into U.S. society, succeed in education, and contribute to their communities. Specifically, results suggest that administrators must provide increased transparency regarding access to education in the United States and additional information about the registration process to ensure YAHIS acculturate and have all necessary support to succeed in higher education.
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Isma, Berthline Rendel. "Examining HIV-Related Attitudes and Behaviors among Haitian Immigrant Women in Florida." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3036.
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an epidemic that disproportionally affects the Haitian immigrant women in Palm Beach County, Florida. I have learned about this association from others' published research that the Haitian immigrant women within this locality are more likely to be hospitalized for HIV-related complications and to delay seeking care than are other racial and ethnic groups. The knowledge on the perceptions of lives for Haitian immigrant women as it relates to the HIV transmission could help fight this virus. Guided by the health belief model, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences and perceptions of Haitian immigrant women about vertical HIV transmission. Data were collected via 25 interviews with HIV-positive Haitian immigrant women of 18 to 65 years old. Three-step approach of Creswell was used under which data were reduced into themes, coded, and condensed. The respondents reported that the inadequate healthcare system, lack of HIV testing, lack of HIV education, HIV stigma, and the Haitian culture impacted their lives and vertical HIV transmission. Twelve out of twenty-five participants suggested that cultural factors have a significant role to play in the high rates of vertical HIV transmission in Palm Beach County. Participants emphasized the role of polygamy as the main cultural issue that promotes vertical HIV transmission in Palm Beach County. This study addresses the gap in the literature by adding to the knowledge of the perceptions of Haitian immigrant women as it relates to vertical HIV transmission, the intended audience of this study are Haitian immigrant women and the healthcare providers.
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Menard, Janelle Marie. "The social context of cervical cancer knowledge and prevention among Haitian immigrant women." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002679.
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Dieujuste, Colette. "Li Fem Anpil: The Lived Experience of Haitian Immigrant Women with Postpartum Depression." eScholarship@UMMS, 2018. https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsn_diss/53.
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Purpose: The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study is to explore the lived experience of Haitian immigrant women living in Massachusetts with PPD.
Specific Aims: Aim 1: To explore the lived experience of PPD among Haitian immigrant women. Aim 2: To explore how the experience of being Haitian influences Haitian immigrant women in their response to PPD.
Framework: Leininger's Theory of Cultural Care (1988) guided the phenomenological approach and data collection. The Transcultural Care Decision & Action model contains three predictive modes for guiding nursing care judgments, decisions, or actions to provide care.
Design: Interpretive phenomenology guided this qualitative study. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted. The data from each interview were transcribed into a written document and analyzed using the Crist and Tanner five-step process.
Results: This study yielded two themes; each theme has three dimensions. The first theme is “Feeling Disconnected” with three dimensions: (a) lack of support; (b) partner conflict; and, (c) nostalgia of Haiti. The second theme is “Feeling Reconnected” with three dimensions: (a) realization of needed help; (b) spirituality; and, (c) resilience.
Conclusion: This study provides insight into the lived experience of Haitian women with PPD. Awareness of Haitian women’s actual experiences with PPD will help health care providers to identify and provide culturally appropriate care to this population.
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Bolduc, Michele Leigh Flippo. "UNDERSTANDING HAITIAN WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE IN IMMOKALEE, FLORIDA, USA." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/56.
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This social science research project takes a critical approach to understanding the health of a population by using the health care system as an entry point through which we can see how large-scale social processes produce a particular health care landscape in the rural, im/migrant farmworker community of Immokalee, Florida, USA. Using a multi-scalar analysis of health care, I investigate how anti-immigrant legislation and neoliberal economics influence the experience of health care for health care providers and Haitian im/migrant women navigating these processes. First, I argue that anti-immigrant and pro-market discourses have been successful in limiting the accessibility to health care services by all immigrant and low-income groups. Second, this serves to shape the landscape through the use of punitive funding changes that impact service availability, denying immigrants and low-income people the right to care. Third, health care providers work to provide care to immigrants despite fluctuating policy and funding, serving as the main point of tension between our politicized, market-driven health care system and their marginalized immigrant patients. Finally, I use the case of Haitian immigrant women in Immokalee to explore the ways that these processes impact service utilization and accessibility. I conclude the project with a discussion of the relevance of this information to enacting effective changes in the way we approach immigrant health in Immokalee and beyond using a combination of policy and planning to re-shape the environment to be one that is supportive of immigrant health and health equity.
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McLeod, Marc Christian. "Undesirable aliens Haitian and British West Indian immigrant workers in Cuba, 1898 to 1940 /." Digital version:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992869.
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Pompilus, Léopold. "Education and integration of immigrant minorities, a case study of the Haitian community in Quebec." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39040.pdf.
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Nicholas, Tekla. "Crossing Boundaries to Education: Haitian Transnational Families and the Quest to Raise the Family Up." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1230.
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Nearly 175, 000 Haitian immigrants have settled in South Florida since the 1970s. Their lives are often lived transnationally with persistent connections and obligations to family members in Haiti. Yet, traditional theories of immigrant assimilation focus on the integration of immigrants into host countries, giving little consideration to relationships and activities that extend into migrants' countries of origin. Conversely, studies of transnational families do not explicitly address incorporation into the receiving country. This dissertation, through the experiences of Haitian immigrants in South Florida, reveals a transnational quest “to raise the family up” through migration, remittances, and the pursuit of higher levels of education. I argue that familial duties and obligations, which have cultural foundations in the Haitian lakou, structure the activities of Haitian transnational families as they pursue socioeconomic advancement through migration and education. With the support of transnational families, many students cross boundaries to academic achievement and improve their opportunities for socioeconomic mobility in the US. With higher levels of education, these individuals contributed to a more favorable incorporation into the United States for their extended families, as well.
The data were collected through participant observation and 78 in-depth interviews documenting the migration histories of 27 Haitian immigrant families in South Florida. This dissertation contributes to the existing literature on Haitian immigrants in the United States and to an understanding of the transnational dimensions of immigrant incorporation more broadly.
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Kaye, Matthew D. "A Study of Primary Schools in the Elias Piña Province on the Dominican Haitian Border: Immigrant Haitian Access to Education in the Dominican Republic in the 2010 Post-Earthquake Era." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/17.
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The research question of the study asked "In the post 2010 earthquake, what are the conditions faced by Haitian immigrants in accessing primary public education in the Dominican Republic"? Within the context of primary education, the study takes place in the town of Comendador, the capital of the Elías Piña province in the Dominican Republic. Using a mixed methods approach, incorporating ethnographic methods and database analysis, the study documents the voices of Haitian and Dominican parents, Dominican school personnel, non-governmental organization (NGO) officials and community stakeholders. Within the construct of access, there are six areas of focus: educational policy, curriculum and instruction, professional development and resources, parent involvement, intercultural communications, and praxis. Data collection tools included field notes, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, analysis of the Latin American Opinion Project (LAPOP), and analysis of a household composition database. The findings of the study indicate six themes: (1) educational policy, Dominican law provides Haitian children with school registration, yet school officials are allowed the flexibility of adherence; (2) curriculum and instruction, using a national curriculum, teachers are not providing a comprehensible education to Haitian students; (3) professional development and resources, teachers recognized the need to make instruction meaningful for Haitian students; (4) parent involvement, undocumented Haitian parents did not feel safe at school sites; (5) intercultural communications (ICC), educators' behaviors towards Haitian immigrant children and parents demonstrated empathy, yet lacked more advanced levels of ICC and, (6) praxis, there was an absence of advocates for Haitian. In the case of stakeholders and educators in Elías Piña the study suggests that, for the most part, few had the experience and background to understand the complexity of Haitian immigrant students and families who expressed living in fear of the authorities, suspicion of who to trust, and despair with regards to living day to day. While education for their children was seen as a positive need for survival in the Dominican Republic, Haitians' lack of understanding of the Dominican educational system leads to the perception that Haitian immigrant parents were not engaged in the education of their children.
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Lindsay, John A. "A study of the relationships between emerging Haitian immigrant congregations and sponsoring/supporting American Christian groups in eastern Massachusetts." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Miner, Jenny. "Migration for Education: Haitian University Students in the Dominican Republic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/89.
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Haitian university students represent a part of the increasing diversity of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Using an ethnographic approach, I explore university students’ motivations for studying in the Dominican Republic, their experiences at Dominican universities and in Dominican society, Haitian student organizations, and their future plans. Additionally, I focus on Haitian students’ experiences with discrimination and how they relate to other Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. I find that most students come to the Dominican Republic due to the difficulty of gaining entrance to affordable Haitian universities and logistical convenience. The university is a unique setting where Haitian and Dominican students are clearly peers, which results in increased interactions between the two groups and decreased discrimination towards Haitian students. However, Haitian students remain a relatively isolated group within the university and in the larger Dominican society. Many students reported experiencing discrimination, although students identified class, rather than race or nationality, as the main reason for discrimination. Furthermore, I focused on the role of language in migrants’ experiences. I found that while a high command of Spanish allowed migrants to avoid identification as Haitian and subsequent discrimination, Kreyòl was used as a resource to create solidarity and maintain cultural ties to Haiti. My research suggests that it is important to keep in mind the distinct notions of race and nationality in Haiti and in the Dominican Republic when considering contemporary struggles for the rights of Haitian migrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic.
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Adams, Megan. ""A Border is a Veil Not Many People Can Wear": Testimonial Fiction and Transnational Healing in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3436.
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Drawing on recent attempts to reconcile the divergent nations of Hispaniola, I will examine the ways in which fiction by U.S. immigrant writers Danticat and Rosario looks back to the traumatic history of race relations on Hispaniola and the 1937 massacre as a means of approaching reconciliation and healing amongst the inhabitants of Hispaniola. As invested outsiders to their homelands, Danticat and Rosario may work, as Chancy suggests, in the capacity of actors for Hispaniola. Both Danticat and Rosario graciously admit that their writing is largely contingent on the relative freedom from censure that their American citizenship affords them. In this capacity, these immigrant writers are uniquely able to revisit a traumatic cultural past to give voice to its widely arrayed victims and to provide an interrogation of the makings of horrific brutality. Despite the largely U.S. American readership, these authors foster a form of reconciliation through their works by forcing the audience to move past dichotomous thinking about the massacre, but also about the boundaries between the two nations.
“…in traumatic times like ours, when reality itself is so distorted as to have become impossible and abnormal, it is the function of all culture, partaking of this abnormality, to be aware of its own sickness. To be aware of the unreality or inauthenticity of the so-called real, is to reinterpret this reality. To reinterpret this reality is to commit oneself to a constant revolutionary assault against it.” (―We Must Learn to Sit Down and Talk about a Little Culture,‖ Sylvia Wynter 31)
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Berthold, Nirva. "Impact of Acculturation on Body Mass Index in Haitians." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6522.
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Longer-term immigrants residing in the United States exhibit physical health decline related to higher body mass index (BMI). Theories on immigrant acculturation have been used to examine health patterns by length of stay in the United States. The purpose of this cross-sectional study, guided by the Schwartz model of acculturation, was to examine the effect of acculturation and length of stay in the United States on BMI in a sample of Haitian immigrants living in the Northeast Metropolitan area. The research question was used to examine the effects of acculturation and length of stay on BMI in the convenience sample of 116 Haitian men and women, aged 18 years and older, who had relocated to the United States for 3 years or more. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire and medical records from a participating health clinic and then analyzed by conducting a multiple linear regression. According to study results, acculturation, length of stay, age, gender, and physical activity were not significant predictors of BMI change. An ancillary analysis using the subscales of acculturation revealed similar results. This study may provide positive social change by enabling health providers to understand the beliefs, values, and practices of Haitian immigrant groups and the acculturation pattern of individuals when providing care for this population.
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Rousseau, Bobb. "Haitian Votes Matter: Haitian Immigrants in Florida in Local Politics and Government." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5520.
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This qualitative study investigated perceived barriers to the incorporation of Haitian immigrants in Florida into local politics and government. The theoretical framework for this study was Marschall and Mikulska's theory of minority political incorporation to better understand the political ambition of Haitian immigrants to emerge as candidates and voters toward achieving electoral success and a substantive representation. The research question addressed the lived experiences and perceptions of Haitian immigrants related to barriers to their political mobilization at district, state, and federal levels. A phenomenological study design was used with open-ended interviews of 10 Haitian Americans who lived in Florida for at least 3 years. Data were analyzed through a six phase thematic analysis, were categorized into themes and subthemes and were later coded to determine which ones best expressed the challenges that Haitian immigrants were facing. Results indicated immigration statuses, language, and poor knowledge of Haitian immigrants of U.S. politics as well as poor leadership and the absence of a communication platform as factors hindering the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into local politics and governments. Haitian-American leaders could benefit from the results of this study as they may develop a cohesive framework for citizenship drives, voter registration, community outreach, and literacy programs. The positive social change implications from this research include the view that Haitian immigrants are not a burden on the U.S. economy, but a potentially mature and attractive minority group with political value to U.S. lawmakers, district, state and presidential candidates.
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Philippi, Dayana Octavien. "Haitian Adult Immigrants as Learners and Parents." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2862.
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Haitian immigrant parents often face challenges to visibly engage in their children's education in the United States due to social, cultural, and economic factors. This study addressed parent involvement (PI) among Haitian immigrant parents of adolescents in a Florida community. The purpose of this exploratory, multiple-case study was to better understand connections between immigrant Haitian parents' beliefs and learning experiences and their experiences supporting their adolescents' learning. Three research questions were developed to explore Haitian adults' lived experiences and perceptions of themselves as keepers of knowledge and as learners, their experiences and perceived roles as parents, and the resources they possessed that could increase PI. The conceptual framework included social constructs of family literacy, new literacy studies, and funds of knowledge. Nine Haitian parents of teenage children and 3 educators and liaisons from the community were selected for interviews. Qualitative data analysis included open coding, theme identification, and triangulation of data from an archival PI survey. Findings indicated that adults' experiences with learning at home and learning at school influenced their perceived parenting roles and self-efficacy at home, the type of PI in which they engaged, and future aspirations for their children. Results were used to develop a white paper aimed at community stakeholders to enhance educators' and social service providers' cultural knowledge of Haitian families and to promote two-way communication. The project may encourage the development of culturally responsive PI strategies and adult learning opportunities benefiting local and trans-national Haitian communities throughout the United States.
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Merilus, Jean-Yves R. "HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN DOMINICA: A DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIP." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1282165611.
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Jabouin-Monnay, Fanya. "Incorporating Solution-Focused Group Therapy Into a Refugee Resettlement Agency: A Participatory Action Research Project with Stakeholders." Diss., NSUWorks, 2016. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/38.
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Meeting the psychological needs of the culturally and linguistically different has always posed challenges to mental health providers. The Haitian community in South Florida has been one such group for whom mental health services have been less than readily available. Some reasons include a lack of trust from the community, a pejorative cultural framework of mental health services, as well as, a lack of competent Haitian Creole speaking therapists armed with culturally congruent therapeutic skills. These present as challenges for community based-agencies attempting to meet the mental health needs of this population. It is even more problematic for humanitarian voluntary agencies (VOLAG) that sponsor refugees and support them throughout their resettlement efforts. Additionally, the 2010 earthquake has given rise to gender based violence disproportionally impacting women and girls (Amnesty International, 2011) who are now seeking safe haven in the U.S. and particularly South Florida. Tasked with assisting in the resettlement of Haitian refugees/asylees/parolees, many psychologically affected by pre and post migration traumas, these agencies must find unique solutions to help their clients toward the ultimate goal of resettlement, self-sufficiency (Stenning, 1996). This Applied Clinical Project (ACP) showcases a community-university partnership with a VOLAG. Participatory Action Research (PAR) protocol was used as an explorative tool to learn from stakeholders about the efficacy of incorporating Solution-Focused Group Therapy (SFBT) in a resettlement integrative program for Haitians. Results will also contribute to the future development of a toolkit to support family therapists in adapting their western trainings to provide culturally and linguistically competent mental health services.
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Jean, Suzie. "Health Literacy and Hypertension Management in Haitian Immigrants." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6222.
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Patient compliance and health care communication are impacted by health literacy. Poor health choices, frequent hospital visits, noncompliance with health regimens, and higher health costs are all associated with low health literacy. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine whether there was an association between health literacy as measured by primary language spoken in the home (Creole vs. English) and hypertension self-management as measured by regular use of medication and cutting down on foods high in salt, and whether there was an association between Haitian men, women, their education level, or level of poverty in relation to health literacy as measured by the primary language spoken at home (English or Creole) and hypertension self-management as measured by regular use of medication and cutting down on foods high in salt. The conceptual framework used for the study was the second language acquisition theory. Strategic sampling was used to identify 318 Haitian participants; however, only 36 respondents qualified as Haitian immigrants with a relatively high propensity of hypertension. Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. The results showed no statistically significant relationship between language spoken at home and hypertensive medical compliance within the New York Haitian immigrant community. The other variables age and household income proved to be statistically significant, however gender and education did not appear to have as much of an influence on hypertensive medical compliance observed in the participants. The social change implications include the need for health care staff to be aware of the roles that age, gender, income, language, culture, and education may play in regard to health literacy and hypertension medical compliance.
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Lopez, Diego dos Santos Ferrari. "Haitianos em São Paulo: Uma etnografia urbana e institucional da ajuda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-11032019-103814/.
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Essa dissertação é fruto de uma etnografia realizada por pouco mais de três anos na unidade da Missão Paz, uma instituição do terceiro setor vinculada à Igreja Nossa Senhora da Paz, no Glicério, centro de São Paulo, onde trabalhei como professor voluntário de português para imigrantes, além de auxiliar em outros serviços. Meu estudo enfoca as diversas relações de sociabilidade, permeadas pela noção de ajuda, dos imigrantes haitianos em São Paulo em confronto com diversos tipos de preconceito social, entre os quais aqueles marcados pela raça, pela classe, pela etnia, pala nacionalidade e pelo gênero. Trata-se de uma etnografia que analisa a formação de grupos imigrantes na cidade; os enquadramentos, os estereótipos e as categorias brasileiras sobre os haitianos; o contexto da marginalização social de imigrantes no espaço urbano; as sociabilidades haitianas citadinas; as aulas de português para estrangeiros; e as relações de ajuda e preconceito a nível público, institucional e social em São Paulo.This M.A. thesis is the result of an ethnography carried out for more than three years at the Peace Mission unit of Nossa Senhora da Paz Church, a third sector institution, at the neighborhood of Glicério, central São Paulo, where I worked as a volunteer teacher of Portuguese for immigrants, as well as assisting in other services. My study focuses on the various social relations permeated by the notion of help, in which Haitian immigrants in Sao Paulo confronted various types of social prejudice, including those marked by race, class, ethnicity, nationality and gender. This ethnography analyzes the formation of immigrant groups in the city of São Paulo; the frames, stereotypes and categories about Haitians mobilized by local Brazilians; the context of social marginalization of immigrants in the urban space; the Haitian sociability; the Portuguese classes for foreigners; and the relations of help and prejudice at the public, the institutional and the social levels.
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Barbour, Leslie. "Knowledge, Beliefs, and Perceptions About Tuberculosis Among Haitian Immigrants and Haitian Americans Living in Miami-Dade County, Florida." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4835.
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Tuberculosis (TB) kills 1.7 million people each year, and 1/3rd of the world's population is estimated to have latent TB. It was once the deadliest disease in the United States but is now relatively rare and, if treated properly, it is curable. Migrants from TB-endemic countries, such as Haiti, are one source of TB transmission to the US, and the prevalence of TB remains high and is increasing in Little Haiti, Florida. Data on the knowledge and perceptions of Haitian immigrants and Haitian Americans about TB is inadequate. The purpose of this qualitative research was to study the TB-related knowledge, beliefs, and perceptions of Haitian Americans and Haitian immigrants living in Miami, FL. The health belief model formed the theoretical framework of this study. Thirty male and female Haitian American and Haitian immigrants were interviewed. Phenomenological research was used, and open coding was conducted to analyze the data. Results showed that a large majority of the participants in this sample were knowledgeable about the nature of TB - its spread, symptoms, seriousness, and how to get information about it, but many were concerned about the social stigma attached to having the disease. Recommendations include the development of outreach, education and prevention programs through doctors and other health care professionals, as well as religious and community leaders, in order to increase awareness of the disease, enhance access to treatment, minimize stigma and reduce the incidence of the disease.
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Yamamoto, Gabriel do Carmo. "Imigração como prática social: estratégias e táticas de organização dos imigrantes haitianos na região metropolitana de Goiânia, Goiás." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8100.
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In this dissertation, we have worked on immigration as a social practice through empirical research with Haitian immigrants. Our objective was to understand the organization practices of Haitian immigrants in the Metropolitan Region of Goiânia, Goiás. This study is justified by the argument that social practice of immigration is a base of production of organizational processes, as well the construction of spaces and places is constituted from the socio-spatial mobility of social subjects. For the development of theoretical argument, we mainly focused on the concepts worked by Michel de Certeau and Tim Cresswell about practices and immigration, respectively. The empirical research was conduceted in the Metropolitan Region of Goiânia, which all the cities together have more than 500 subjects coming from Haiti. For the production of empirical material we used as tools the life history and participatory observation. The interviews had a semi-structured script. The results obtained were analyzed by means of the interpretative technique, being found five main practices in the organization of Haitian immigrants: practice of path; economic and labor practice; cohabitation practice; practice of care; and practice of religion. As the main contributions of the work we point out: 1) realization of approximations of practical theories with as discussions about socio-spatial mobility; 2) the understanding of immigration as a social practice; 3) deepening the understanding of the immigrant / organizational process of Haitian subjects in Brazilian lands; and 4) discussion of the reception policies of immigrants in the context researched.
Nesta dissertação trabalhamos a imigração como prática social por meio de uma pesquisa empírica com imigrantes haitianos. Nosso objetivo foi compreender as práticas de organização dos imigrantes haitianos na região metropolitana de Goiânia, Goiás. Isso porque a prática social da imigração é a base de produção de processos organizativos, cuja construção de espaços e lugares se constitui a partir da mobilidade socioespacial dos sujeitos sociais. Para o desenvolvimento desse argumento teórico, nos respaldamos principalmente nos conceitos trabalhados por Michel de Certeau e Tim Cresswell sobre práticas e de imigração, respectivamente. A pesquisa de campo foi conduzida em comunidades haitianas estabelecidas na Região Metropolitana de Goiânia, que juntas contam com mais de 500 sujeitos provenientes do Haiti. Para produção de material empírico utilizamos as técnicas de história de vida e observação participante. As entrevistas contaram com roteiro semiestruturado. Os resultados obtidos foram analisados por meio da técnica interpretativa, sendo encontradas cinco práticas principais na organização de imigrantes haitianos: prática de caminho; prática econômica e de trabalho; prática de coabitação; prática de cuidado; e prática de religião. Como principais contribuições do trabalho pontuamos: 1) realização de aproximações de teorias da prática com as discussões sobre mobilidade socioespacial; 2) o entendimento da imigração como prática social; 3) aprofundamento da compreensão do processo imigratório/organizativo de sujeitos haitianos em terras brasileiras; e 4) discussão das políticas de recepção de imigrantes no contexto pesquisado.
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Pichard, Mercedes. "A FOCUS GROUP OF ADOLESCENT HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS: FACTORS AFFECTING THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN A FLORIDA PUBLIC HIG." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2360.
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The goal of this ethnographic research was to examine the perceptions of academic success of adolescent Haitian immigrant students who have arrived in the United States within the last five years and attend a public high school in Florida. The Haitian students were asked to explain the tensions they perceive between Haitian societal and educational norms and beliefs and American ones, and explain their perceptions and concerns regarding success. The importance of their perceptions as influences on their behavior was related to Bandura's Social Cognitive Learning Theory. The relevance of certain questions concerning academic success for Haitian students was investigated through group interviews and focus group interviews textual data. The resulting qualitative exploratory study is meant to further our understandings of the Haitian students' perceived and real successes, as well as to further additive bicultural educational practice in public high school settings where Haitian students are found. The literature review and results of this study found that there were many factors, student characteristics and student perceptions that could be used to explain Haitian immigrant adolescent student achievement in Florida public high school course work. Thirteen themes of concern to the students were developed in the data analysis. The Haitian adolescent immigrant students are able to speak purposefully, cogently, powerfully and coherently (English-language skills permitting) on numerous questions surrounding their thoughts and perceptions about their own success, academically or in their future careers. We can see that these students are able to define and discuss issues, make plans and recommendations for their own success, and state what is available/helpful and what is lacking for them in their high school. Suggested uses for the study included making some suggestions for the reorganization and implementation of certain educational resources for these Haitian adolescent students, and also making recommendations for future research, including but not limited to a study examining, implementing and assessing a pilot program which increases the career-counseling and vocational-planning resources available for these older secondary LEP students.Ed.D.
Department of Educational Studies
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Doreinvil, Gueillant. "A new curriculum for a new Haitian church in the diaspora." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com.
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Safai, Ahsha Ali 1973. "Immigrating to public housing : Haitian immigrants and the transformation of Washington Elms and Newtowne Court." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69758.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-151).
For centuries the United States has received waves of immigrants. In fact, many scholars would argue that America is a nation of immigrants. At the height of foreign migration to the US - late nineteenth, early twentieth century - many of America's Northeast cities became gateways or ports-of-entry for generations of immigrants. Upon arrival in these gateway cities, most immigrants, but particularly low-income immigrants, could rely upon the existence of the port-of-entry neighborhood - a neighborhood in which the affordability of the housing stock afforded recent migrants the opportunity to live in close proximity to someone with whom they shared a common culture, experience, and language. After World War II, however, the US rapidly expanded, and with this expansion came the destruction of many port-of-entry neighborhoods. In fact, because many port-of-entry neighborhoods were often situated in more economically depressed urban communities, under programs like Urban Renewal they were labeled "slums," which hastened their decline. Today, many port-of-entry neighborhoods are still under assault. In more recent times, however, the economy - rapid gentrification and stronger real estate markets - has replaced Urban Renewal. This has caused many low-income immigrants to seek alternative affordable housing solutions for themselves and their families. One area of the real estate market that some immigrants have chosen to occupy has historically been home to different waves of low-income individuals: public housing. Public housing has experienced many different types of residents; newly arrived immigrants present themselves as a new group. This thesis is a case study of a current example of the process by which a recent immigrant group, Haitians, has transformed two public housing developments in Cambridge, MA - two of the oldest government housing developments in the US: Washington Elms and Newtowne Court. I use archival and face-to-face interview data to answer two questions: Is public housing becoming a port-of-entry neighborhood for recent immigrants? (in this case, for Haitians) and, if so, what does it mean for Housing Authorities across the nation to take on the role of housing immigrants, particularly those in traditional port-of-entry cities? I find that as was the case in the old port-of-entry neighborhood, the availability of low-cost housing - in this instance public housing - provides low-income immigrants the opportunity to create new port-of-entry communities.
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Rahill, Guitele Jeudy. "The Practice and Use of Picuristes (Lay Injectionists) among Haitian Immigrants in Miami-Dade County, Florida." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/278.
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This exploratory study examined use of picuristes among Haitian immigrants in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It describes how this health-seeking behavior is socially constructed among Haitian immigrants in terms of benefits. (b) risks, (c) sex, (d) gender, (e) acculturation proxies and (f) transnational influences. It is conducted within the frameworks of Symbolic Interactionism, the Health Belief Model and the Explanatory Model of Illness. Purposive sampling and a mixed-method design were used to obtain semistructured interviews of 10 picuristes and 25 users. The same methods were employed to select survey respondents so as to obtain a descriptive estimate of picuriste use and covariates of picuriste use within the sample. ATLAS.ti 5.0 and SPSS 14.0 were used to analyze the data. The findings indicate an interconnection of elements from Vodou, traditional Haitian health beliefs and picuriste practice and use. Rekonnèt, a relationship based on a history of trust with individuals related by blood or who share close personal and social ties was identified as a sufficient and necessary reason for picuriste practice and use. Benefits reported are that the picuriste injections directly impact the blood, and that they represent affordable and convenient access to health care. Risks include rashes, abscesses and fevers. The reuse of injection equipment, routine injection of antibiotics and unknown substances and the improper discard of syringes and needles were reported, implying unrecognized risks of preventable infectious disease. No participant described a process that adheres to established international standards for safe injections. There is no clear evidence that biological sex, gender, length of time in U.S. or language of interview influence picuriste practice or use. Transnational ties facilitate transport of substances from Haiti and the practice and use of picuristes locally. Recommendation by a relative or trusted friend and believing that the benefits of picures outweigh risks were covariates of picuriste use. This study highlights values and priorities of Haitian immigrants seeking healthcare, and cultural forces that shape their decisions about wellness and treatment. Future studies should test the application of Symbolic Interactionism to picuriste use in larger epidemiological studies that examine picuriste use in relation to health status.
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Haupenthal, Fernanda Lermen. "Brasil, a terra prometida: um estudo sobre a adaptação do imigrante haitiano no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul através da cultura do consumo." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2014. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4692.
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A partir de 2010 um fenômeno vem se intensificando no Brasil: a vinda de haitianos. O objetivo desta dissertação é entender o papel das escolhas e práticas de consumo no processo de aculturação dos haitianos no Rio Grande do Sul. O estudo fundamenta-se na abordagem de Cultura do Consumo. A metodologia utilizada para este trabalho foi de natureza interpretativista, um pesquisa qualitativa através de entrevistas em profundidade, observações participantes e análise da mídia popular. Os principais resultados encontrados nesta pesquisa envolvem consumir por consumir, desconhecendo o significado, a possibilidade de negociar e não controlar a adaptação pelo consumo, à cultura do assistencialismo, o desequilíbrio das escolhas e práticas de consumo, a prática comum e próxima e finalmente, a prisão de consumo.
From 2010 a phenomenon has intensified in Brazil: the coming of Haitians. The objective of this dissertation is to understand the role of choices and consumption practices in the acculturation of Haitians in Rio Grande do Sul The case study is based on the approach of Consumer Culture. The methodology used for this study was interpretive nature a qualitative research through in-depth interviews, participant observation and analysis of social media. The main findings of this study involve consuming for consuming, not knowing the meaning, the ability to negotiate and not control the adaptation by consumption, the culture of philanthropy, the imbalance of choices and consumption practices, the common practice and next and finally the prison consumption.
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Knight, Catherine. "Les difficultés et les stratégies d'insertion en emploi des immigrants haïtiens dans la région d'Ottawa-Gatineau." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33152.
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La plupart des immigrants étrangers qui tentent d'intégrer le marché du travail au Canada vont connaître une trajectoire impliquant diverses contraintes. Cette étude qualitative se penche sur la problématique de l'insertion en emploi des immigrants francophones hors Québec. Elle est réalisée par le biais d'entrevues auprès de douze immigrants haïtiens dans la région Ottawa-Gatineau et vise à identifier les obstacles d’intégration en emploi et les stratégies de contournement employées par les immigrants tout au long de leur trajectoire respective. Il s'agit d'examiner comment les éléments du capital humain, du capital social et de la discrimination peuvent influencer leur insertion en emploi.
Suite aux données recueillies dans nos entrevues nous avons déterminé que la non-reconnaissance des diplômes et des compétences acquises à l'étranger, la barrière linguistique due à la non-maîtrise de l'anglais, le manque d'expérience sur le marché du travail canadien, la faiblesse des réseaux sociaux et la discrimination sont les principaux obstacles rencontrés par les immigrants dans leur trajectoire d'insertion en emploi. Malgré ceux-ci, les immigrants ne se découragent pas et mettre en place diverses stratégies. Ainsi, le retour aux études postsecondaires, l'apprentissage de l'anglais, le recours aux réseaux sociaux, ne pas porter attention à la discrimination et prendre du recul face à ce phénomène sont certains des éléments qui ont favorisé l'insertion en emploi des participants de notre recherche.
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Alcidonis, Sendy Guerrier. "The Social Networks of Haitian Immigrants Employed in the Long-term Care Industry in Metropolitan Philadelphia: Complex Intersections of Race, Nationality, Class, and Gender." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/367943.
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This study explains the labor market outcomes of foreign-born Haitian women and men employed in the long-term care industry in Philadelphia, PA. The study is a feminist geographic analysis of their social networks related to migration and employment. This analysis is significant for two reasons. First it provides a more nuanced understanding of the linkages between the geography of networks, migration, and labor market outcomes than currently exists. Furthermore by exploring how people’s multiple social identities shape the geography of social networks, migration, and labor market outcomes, the study integrates geographic and intersectional analyses and brings feminist geography to the center of contemporary feminist debates. I engaged in an inductive qualitative research study consisting of interviews and participation observation fieldwork. I conducted in-depth interviews with 18 women and 12 men currently working in the long-term care industry, along the nursing occupational hierarchy. These interviews focused on explicating the relationships among the geography of place-based social networks, the dynamic and complex intersections of multiple social identities, and occupational mobility. Interviews examined the nature, spatial extent and significance of the social network connections that shaped their labor market, educational, and migratory histories, as well as their current daily activities. I interviewed six key informants from Haitian community groups and immigrant nonprofit organizations to gain additional information about the Haitian community in Philadelphia and the role of social network composition and use. I also interviewed seven key informants affiliated with nurse training and job placement organizations to gain more information about the trends in this field. Finally, I conducted participant observation fieldwork at three nursing program recruitment information sessions. This research is a timely intervention that brings together the academic literature of feminist geographic inquiry about urban labor markets, feminist geographic inquiry about migration, migration studies, and the feminist theory of intersectionality. The scholarship of each of these has developed along parallel but separate trajectories. By bringing them in conversation with one another, this research makes important contributions to a number of important theoretical and empirical debates within each of them. The project advanced migration studies by documenting the multiscalar geography of social networks and how the complex intersections of race, class, nationality and gender shape network composition. Furthermore the research linked co-ethnic social networks to occupational mobility within the long-term care industry. This study advanced feminist theory by integrating a Black Feminist approach to intersectionality with geographic concepts of mobility, space and place to develop a new methodological tool, the Social Relations Chart. This provides a new way to examine intersectionality in practice. Finally, this study advanced feminist geographic inquiry by documenting the complex intersections and operation of the power hierarchies of race, nationality, class and gender in the workplace in a manner not previously documented in the urban labor market literature. In sum, this research brings these bodies of scholarship together and extends collective knowledge about the mechanisms by which mobility, power, place and space are shaped by multiscalar social relations.
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Joseph, Adner. "A new philosophy of missions for South Florida Christian Center." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com.
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Noel-Thomas, Shalewa. "An Exploratory Study of the Intrapersonal, Socio-cultural, and Behavioral Factors that Influence HIV Risk Behaviors Among Ethnic Subgroups of Black Heterosexual Men: The Intersection of the Beliefs and Perceptions of Black Women." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1724.
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Twenty five years after AIDS was first scientifically described, the disease continues to take its toll on the human population. HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects marginalized groups such as poor, underserved, minority populations. In the United States, Blacks become infected with and die from HIV/AIDS more than any other ethnic or racial group. Despite a vast body of literature on HIV/AIDS, little research has focused on black heterosexual men and even fewer studies have explored the context of risk among subgroups of black men.
Using qualitative research methods and a socio-ecological framework, this study explored the intrapersonal, socio-cultural, and behavioral factors that influence sexual behaviors in ethnic subgroups of black men who identify as heterosexual. Further, the study examined black women's perceptions of the sexual behaviors of black men. Conducted in a metropolitan area in Southwest Florida, the study consisted of two phases: 1) semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted among U.S.-born (N=15) and Haitian-born (N=14) heterosexual men who are 18 years and older and have lived in the U.S. for at least 3 years. 2) Using focus group methodology, phase 2 explored black women's (N=23) perceptions of black male sexual behaviors.
Study findings have significant implications for public health education, research and practice. Findings reveal that while Haitian-born and U.S.-born men have high levels of knowledge about HIV, they also ascribe to HIV conspiracy beliefs and practice high risk sexual behaviors such as unprotected sex and partner concurrency. Results show that black men's sexual behaviors are influenced by socio-ecological factors such as family norms, hip-hop culture and religious beliefs. Female study participants perceived factors such as masculine ideologies, socialization, and the male-to-female ratio imbalance as critical influences on male sexual behaviors. While intrapersonal approaches are important to address HIV risk behaviors, ecological frameworks are necessary to inform the development of HIV prevention programs that address the socio-ecological factors that create an environment of risk. This inquiry underscores cultural and gender differences in the conceptualization of HIV/AIDS. Findings have implications for HIV prevention and demonstrate the need for gender-specific and culturally relevant HIV prevention approaches for U.S.-born and Haitian-born blacks.
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Eze, Debie. "Where Haitians are, where Haitians can come : belonging and cultural reproduction among Haitian immigrant Pentecostals in Canada." Thesis, 2007. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975681/1/MR40839.pdf.
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This study aims to investigate the connection between religion and immigration. It delves into immigrant religious institutions in an effort to discover how immigrant's sense of belonging to their host and home nations was formed after migration. Within this context, this study will show how religious sites can become powerful sites for cultural reproduction and ethnic identity reaffirmation. Focusing on Haitian immigrants this work will shed some light on the origins of two Haitian Pentecostal congregations in Toronto and Montréal. It will also outline the manner in which members of these congregations conceptualize their belonging in Canadian society by deconstructing my collaborators accounts of their perceptions of the use of language in the church. In particular, I will be looking at the effects of transnationality and state policies. Lastly, the study will show that religion plays a fundamental role in shaping an immigrant's sense of belonging. It will do so by illustrating how ethnic identity reproduction, more specifically how the use of native vernaculars fortified congregant commitment to the institution, reproduce ethnic identity, and engendered a sense of community.
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Pompilus, Léopold. "Education and integration of immigrant minorities : a case study of the Haitian community in Quebec." Thesis, 1999. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/702/1/MQ39040.pdf.
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This thesis examines the immigration and integration of Haitians in Quebec society. First, a historical background of this process is presented. Second, there is a discussion of how education is strongly linked to the Haitian's particular status in Quebec. This status is subject to the political climate and commitment of the Quebec government to establish French culture as the dominant one. Finally, different interviews with Haitian respondents and participants are introduced. The findings of the cases studied suggest that some of the Haitians who arrived here in the 1960s (first wave) became "upwardly mobile' and benefited from unprecedented opportunities in Quebec. Unlike the first wave, the second and succeeding waves of Haitian immigration arrived in Quebec in a different political and socioeconomic context. Because many of these individuals had little education, they went to work mainly in factories. However, many of those who were well-educated failed to secure a job despite their education. This situation forced the latter into unemployment and underemployment. Starting with the assumption that education and employment are the main variables for achieving immigrant integration, this thesis seeks to understand these two different contexts of Haitian immigration and their effect on the integration process of these individuals in Quebec society.
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Collins, Tya. "Postsecondary pathways among second-generation immigrants of haitian origin : a Montreal CEGEP case study." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16392.
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Crevecoeur, Thamarah. "Developing culturally specific, patient-centered maternity care models for high-risk immigrant populations: recommendations from a study of the Haitian population at Boston Medical Center." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42585.
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BACKGROUND: Haitian women in Massachusetts experience higher than average rates of low birth weight, C-section and inadequate prenatal care. Given the disparities in Black maternal health in the U.S., creative and innovative care models are necessary to improve outcomes. Culturally specific care models have been found to improve satisfaction and uptake of prenatal care among immigrants. A mixed methods case study was conducted at Boston Medical Center with the aims of describing maternal health outcomes of Haitian women, understanding Haitian women’s experiences and barriers to care and the feasibility of culturally specific maternity care models.
METHODS: Electronic medical records were used to obtain and analyze retrospective data about patients’ socio-economic factors, baseline health maternity characteristics, maternity care utilization characteristics, perinatal complications and obstetrical outcomes stratified by ethnicity from 2015-2019. Chi square analysis was performed to measure statistical significance. Four focus groups and three in-depth interviews were performed with Haitian pregnant and postpartum women (n=25). Key informant interviews (n=14) were conducted with hospital clinical providers and clinical program directors. The 3 delays model, respectful maternal care and cultural competence frameworks were applied, using Nvivo for coding and organizing emerging themes.
RESULTS: Haitian women demonstrate significantly higher than average proportions of advanced maternal age {40.9 %; (<.001)}, obesity {43.8.8%; (<.001)}; delayed entry to prenatal care {49.5; (.007)}; and pre-eclampsia {7.0%; (.001)}. Inadequate access to insurance and transportation contributed to delays in accessing care. Disrespectful and poor coordination of care negatively affected Haitian women’s experience and perceived quality of care. Haitian women desired culturally competent, personalized heath care services. Barriers to cultural competence and the development of culturally specific care models include lack of staff diversity, finances, health care structural design and lack of training.
CONCLUSION: Haitian women may benefit from additional social resources and culturally specific, tailored health programs such as group prenatal care. Recommendations to improve cultural competence include diversifying the workforce, collecting data on racial and ethnic disparities, and trainings to integrate culturally competent principles into clinical practice. Additional research needs include design, implementation and evaluation of culturally specific tailored maternal health interventions with the Haitian population.
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Pierre-Pierre, Anne Martine. "Examining social class and help-seeking behaviors among Haitian immigrants in the United States." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5187.
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Haitians in the United States represent the fourth largest immigrant population from the Caribbean. As in the case of many immigrant populations, Haitian immigrant adaptation has been challenged by social, political and economic factors, and as a result they have had to seek legal, health, and social services. According to the literature, help-seeking behaviors among Haitian immigrants have been associated with traditional indices of socioeconomic status, namely education, occupation, or income. This study takes a more in-depth look at the influence of social class by approaching it as cultural construct in the context of historical patterns of Haitian immigrant incorporation. Most Haitians arrived during the latter half of the 20th century in four successive waves, the 1957, 1970, 1980 and 1991 wave. Each of these waves of Haitian immigration represented a distinct context of departure and social class composition. A qualitative approach was used to obtain rich information on the role of help-seeking in the immigration and incorporation experience of Haitians from the perspective of immigrants who arrived during the four distinct waves of immigration. Individual and focused group interviews were conducted in English, Creole, and French with a purposive and snowball sample of 43 Haitian immigrants currently living in south Florida. Using a grounded theory approach, the analysis generated six categories related to the Haitian immigrant experience: orientation at time of arrival, establishment of social connections, issues of trust, generational effects, cultural constructs of social class, and perspectives on the help-seeking experience. Key findings emerged that identified the importance of social connections in Haitian help-seeking behaviors in the context of a complex Haitian social class construct imbedded in historical, political, and economic positioning. Specifically, across all immigration waves, regardless of social background--from the highly educated doctor who arrived in the 1950s to the rural peasant who arrived in the 1990s--Haitian immigrants identified an individual of Haitian descent residing in the United States on whom they relied for assistance in obtaining resources. This system of social connections reflected the social constructs of class existing in Haiti and remained a significant factor in Haitian immigrants' help-seeking behaviors during resettlement.text
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Joseph, Maloune. "La relation entre l’importance accordée à la réussite scolaire par les parents et l’engagement scolaire des élèves d’origine haïtienne au primaire : l’effet modérateur de la relation maître-élève." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13780.
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Ritger, Carly. "Embrace the good, refuse the bad: Haitian American children's selective engagement with the United States." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42858.
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This qualitative research study investigates the perceptions of children, parents, and staff members at a Boston multi-service nonprofit for Haitian immigrants. It is an exploration of how children cultivate their identity, and how a center for immigrants functions in the current sociopolitical climate. There is an evidentiary lacuna of qualitative explorations on children of immigrants’ perceptions and health. The COVID-19 pandemic makes this issue even more temporally relevant, as new data suggests structural factors make marginalized groups, such as people of color and immigrants, more vulnerable to infection and death. This study will contribute to the body of work on children of immigrants’ health by 1) analyzing the unique child perspective, as opposed to focusing entirely on adults or using quantitative child measures, 2) employing qualitative data to create more robust depictions of lived experiences, 3) and situating data in the particular Haiti/U.S. historical, political relationship. This study’s methodology includes ethnographic participant observation during regular visits to a nonprofit organization for immigrants (Fanmi Nou) over the course of several months, semi-structured video interviews with children, parents, and staff members of this organization, and content analysis of documents produced by Fanmi Nou.
Through different waves of migration to the United States, children of Haitian immigrants have lived bicultural lives. In the last four years, however, biculturalism and transnationality have come under growing assault. As a reactionary response to overt hostility, parents, staff members at Fanmi Nou, and children themselves, actively promote a Haitian identity in children. Living under an administration characterized by its hostility to immigrants, Haitian American children pick and choose which aspects of American life to welcome and which to reject. Through a multi-service nonprofit organization, these children and their families selectively engage with the U.S. political, educational, and social systems. I argue that these children and this organization strategically support the healthy development of self under these new restrictions.
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Valade, Véronique. "Parcours d’étudiants racisés à l’université au Québec : le cas d’étudiants montréalais d’origine haïtienne." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25701.
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Ce mémoire vise à analyser les parcours universitaires d’étudiants montréalais d’origine haïtienne, qui représentent un des groupes les plus susceptibles de décrocher. Au moyen d’une posture épistémologique interprétative-critique, nous avons tenté d’identifier les facteurs qui entravent ou qui facilitent les parcours universitaires de ces étudiants. En nous basant sur la théorie raciale critique et de l’approche par les capabilités d’Amartya Sen (2000) et de Martha Nussbaum (2012), nous avons analysé un total de dix entretiens semi-dirigés menés auprès de cinq étudiants, afin de voir si les rapports sociaux de race et les rapports de pouvoir inégaux jouent sur leurs parcours. Ces entretiens sont issus de données secondaires s’inscrivant dans un projet de recherche plus large portant sur les inégalités de parcours dans l’enseignement supérieur et qui s’intéresse aux cas des étudiants racisés. Dans un premier temps, nous nous sommes penchées sur le sens que les étudiants montréalais issus de la communauté haïtienne donnent aux situations de racisme, de discrimination en milieu socioscolaire et universitaire, ainsi que sur la manière dont les rapports de pouvoir inégaux influençent leurs parcours. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons analysé la manière dont les facteurs de conversion influencent leurs fonctionnements. On compte trois types de facteurs de conversion : environnementaux (liés à l’environnement géographique ou aux infrastructures), individuels (liés aux caractéristiques, aptitudes et aspirations individuelles) et socioculturels (normes, relations et rapports sociaux). Ils correspondent à ce qui influence un individu à utiliser une ressource ou un bien et peuvent avoir des versants positifs et négatifs. Les résultats vont dans le même sens que la littérature existante au sujet des étudiants issus de groupes racisés et révèlent diverses expériences racisantes, microagressions rencontrées par ces étudiants tout au long de leurs parcours scolaire et académique. Des stratégies comme la création de counterspaces ou le role flexing sont utilisées par les étudiants afin de contrer le sentiment d’aliénation ressenti et afin de mieux naviguer au sein du système. Les facteurs de conversion de type socioculturel se révèlent centraux dans l’analyse des façons d’être et d’agir de ces étudiants. Les recommandations qui émanent de notre analyse se rapportent surtout à l’importance d’un meilleur travail de sensibilisation auprès des acteurs des établissements scolaires et postsecondaires quant aux réalités des communautés racisées, notamment en termes de microagressions et de situations de racisation.This thesis aims to analyze the postsecondary pathways of Montreal universities’ students of Haitian descent, who represent one of the groups that are most likely to drop out. Using a criticalinterpretative epistemological stance, we tried to identify the factors that may impede or facilitate their pathways. A framework combining the critical race theory and Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach allowed the examination of social relations of race and unequal power relations, and their influence on racialized students’ pathways. We first looked at the meaning Montreal students of Haitian descent gave to racializing situations in social and academic environments, as well as the way unequal power relations influence their experience. Then, we analyzed how conversion factors influenced the use of resources put at their disposal. Conversion factors inhibit or encourage the transformation of their characteristics into functionings, and can either be environmental, personal or social. The empirical material analyzed is based on 10 qualitative interviews conducted with five undergraduate students. The analysis of the data demonstrates that racialized students experience many forms of microaggressions and racialization during their pathways in the schools, cegeps and universities they attended. They use different strategies such as role flexing or creation of counterspaces to navigate the system better and to counter the feeling of alienation they sometimes feel. Social conversion factors occupy a central place in the analysis of ways of being and acting of our participants, compared to environmental and personal conversion factors. The recommendations that emanate from our analysis mainly relate to the importance of awareness raising among school and universities stakeholders as to racialized students’ realities, especially in terms of microaggressions and racializing situations.
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Chery, Martine F. "Comparaison du profil de santé périnatale des femmes immigrantes haïtiennes à celui des femmes nées au Canada, pour la période 1981-2006, au Québec." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4982.
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Objectif: Cette étude vise à examiner l’issue de la grossesse des mères-nées haïtiennes pour la prématurité, la naissance de faible poids (NFP) et le retard-de-croissance intra-utérine (RCIU) et étudier leur tendance temporelle au Québec.
Méthode: Étude populationnelle sur les naissances vivantes simples au Québec de 1981-2006 (N = 2 193 637). À l’aide des modèles de régression logistique, prenant comme référence les mères-nées canadiennes, les associations entre l’issue défavorable de grossesse et les mères-nées haïtiennes étaient étudiées.
Résultats: Les proportions de prématurité, de NFP et du RCIU sont plus fréquentes chez les mères-nées haïtiennes (8,5%, 7,5% et 12,6% respectivement) que chez les Canadiennes (5,8%; 5,1% et 11,5% respectivement). Ajustés pour les variables de confusions potentielles (âge maternel, éducation, parité, statut matrimonial, sexe, période-de-naissance), les susceptibilités de prématurité, NFP et RCIU demeuraient plus élevés chez les mères-nées haïtiennes (RC 1,44 IC 95% [1,36-1,52] ; RC 1,40 IC 95% [1,32-148] ; RC 1,09 IC 95% [1,04-1,14] respectivement). Les susceptibilités de prématurité, de NFP et du RCIU augmentaient avec le temps chez les mères-nées haïtiennes.
Conclusion : Les mères-nées haïtiennes ont une issue de grossesse défavorable pour la prématurité, NFP et RCUI comparée aux mères-nées canadiennes. Des recherches sur les facteurs responsables de ces associations et des interventions pour améliorer la santé périnatale des immigrants haïtiens, diminuer les inégalités de santé sont nécessaires au Québec.Objective: This study aimed to examine birth outcomes among Haitian-born mothers specifically prematurity, low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA) births and their trends over time in Quebec. Method: Analysing for a 25 years period a cohort of 2 193 637 singleton live births from the Quebec birth file. Multiple logistic regression models were used to examine adverse birth outcomes for Haitian-born relative to Canadian-born mothers. Results: Haitian-born mothers had higher proportions of preterm birth, LBW and SGA (8.5%, 7.5% and 12.6% respectively) outcomes than Canadian-born mothers (5.8%, 5.1% and 11.5% respectively). In models accounting for maternal age, education, marital status, gravidity, infant sex and period, Haitian-born had a greater odds of premature births, LBW and SGA (OR 1.44 CI 95% [1,36-1,52]; OR 1.40 95% [1,32-148]; OR 1.09 95% [1,04-1,14] respectively) relative to Canadian-born mothers. When examined over time the odds of premature birth, LBW and SGA increased with time among Haitian-born mothers in Québec. Conclusion: Haitian-born mothers have a greater likelihood of adverse birth outcomes relative to Canadian-born mothers. Research on the factors underlying these associations and interventions to improve prenatal health and reduce health disparity among Haitian-born minority are needed in Quebec.