{"id":44628,"date":"2015-12-19T03:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44628"},"modified":"2015-12-19T03:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T03:50:40","slug":"stateless-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44628","title":{"rendered":"Stateless in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stateless in the Dominican Republic<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Columbia Law School<\/a>
\n2015-12-15<\/p>\n

Media Contact:<\/b> Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Human Rights Lawyers Champion the Rights of Disenfranchised Dominicans of Haitian Descent, in a Talk at Columbia Law School<\/em><\/p>\n

New York, December 15, 2015<\/strong>\u2014The plight of more than 200,000 people in the Dominican Republic<\/a> who were stripped of their citizenship two years ago by that nation\u2019s highest court was discussed by two human rights attorneys at Columbia Law School. The newly stateless people were Dominican-born to undocumented Haitian<\/a> immigrant parents or grandparents, and they now face the threat of forced deportation, leading the lawyers to draw parallels to the current debate in the United States over birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n

The Nov. 19 event\u2014\u201cImmigration and Black Lives: Haitian Deportations in the Dominican Republic\u201d\u2014was sponsored by Columbia Law School\u2019s Latino\/a Law Students Association<\/a> and Black Law Students Association<\/a>, and cosponsored by Social Justice Initiatives<\/a>, the Columbia Journal of Race and Law<\/a>, and the Human Rights Institute<\/a>. It was organized by Daily Guerrero \u201917, who came to the United States from the Dominican Republic when she was six years old.<\/p>\n

Cassandre Th\u00e9ano<\/a>, an associate legal officer for the Open Society Justice Initiative<\/a>, explained that in 2013, the Dominican Republic\u2019s highest court denied the daughter of Haitian migrants her \u201cc\u00e9dula\u201d\u2014or identity papers\u2014confiscated her birth certificate, and applied the decision to anyone born after 1929, revoking the citizenship of Haitian descendants who had been living in the Dominican Republic for generations. \u201cPretty much every international organization was shocked, and there was a lot of uproar,\u201d Th\u00e9ano said…<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really a racial justice issue,\u201d said Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan,<\/a> president of the National Lawyers Guild and an associate counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF<\/a>, which works with low-wage Latina immigrant workers in the United States. Nearly three-quarters of the Dominican Republic\u2019s population is made up of people of mixed-race heritage, while 95 percent of the Haitian population is black. A language difference also exists, as most Dominicans speak Spanish and Haitians Haitian Creole. \u201cThese policies are targeting black and brown people,\u201d Bannan said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stateless in the Dominican Republic Columbia Law School 2015-12-15 Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu Human Rights Lawyers Champion the Rights of Disenfranchised Dominicans of Haitian Descent, in a Talk at Columbia Law School New York, December 15, 2015\u2014The plight of more than 200,000 people in the Dominican Republic who were stripped of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,1467,8,20],"tags":[22286,22285,22284,3468,1062,22287],"class_list":["post-44628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cassandre-theano","tag-columbia-law-school","tag-daily-guerrero","tag-dominican-republic","tag-haiti","tag-natasha-lycia-ora-bannan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44629,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44628\/revisions\/44629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}