Book contents
- More than a Massacre
- Afro-Latin America
- More than a Massacre
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 From Natives to Foreigners
- 2 The End of the Old Border
- 3 Curses, Scuffles, and Public Disturbances
- 4 “They killed my entire family”
- 5 La campaña contra los Haitianos
- 6 The “Dominicanization” of the Border
- 7 Refugees and Land Conflict in the Postgenocide Haitian–Dominican Border Region
- Epilogue: The Right to Have Rights
- Appendix: Photographs
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Refugees and Land Conflict in the Postgenocide Haitian–Dominican Border Region
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- More than a Massacre
- Afro-Latin America
- More than a Massacre
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 From Natives to Foreigners
- 2 The End of the Old Border
- 3 Curses, Scuffles, and Public Disturbances
- 4 “They killed my entire family”
- 5 La campaña contra los Haitianos
- 6 The “Dominicanization” of the Border
- 7 Refugees and Land Conflict in the Postgenocide Haitian–Dominican Border Region
- Epilogue: The Right to Have Rights
- Appendix: Photographs
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Displacement and genocide, rather than fully eliminating the Haitian presence in Dominican territory, fomented new forms of contestation, tension, and conflict. Refugees’ prolonged patterns of contestation and resistance contributed to tense relations along the border throughout the 1940s. This chapter details ethnic Haitians’ methods of irregular resistance, which included secret farms, livestock-theft, the right of return, and in some rare cases, arson and vandalism. These incidents provide a window into some refugees’ political consciousness surrounding genocide, displacement, lost citizenship, and lost homeland. The chapter argues that ethnic Haitians challenged Trujillo’s territorial sovereignty and Dominicanization through land contestation, arson, and clandestine farming. Of these phenomena, clandestine farming was the most enduring and widespread form of resistance because it was the least dangerous and also functioned as a desperate survival strategy. The genocide continued throughout the 1940s in the form of isolated killings by which Trujillo’s government enforced the parallel policies of a closed border and Dominicanization. This chapter considers the ways in which desperate, irregular social contestation through nighttime farming and cross-border livestock-theft represented disturbing, latter-day echoes of colonial marronage.
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- More than a MassacreRacial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands, pp. 225 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022