Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaLawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic
Since its inception, Dominican immigration policy with respect to Haiti has consisted in a Janus-faced strategy. On the one hand, an increasingly repressive and discriminatory legal order that is prejudiced against Haitian immigrants and their descendents has been established. On the other, extra-in...
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| description | Since its inception, Dominican immigration policy with respect to Haiti has consisted in a Janus-faced strategy. On the one hand, an increasingly repressive and discriminatory legal order that is prejudiced against Haitian immigrants and their descendents has been established. On the other, extra-institutional exceptions are routinely generated in terms of regulations in order to create an uprooted and forsaken population with a precarious political and legal status. This strategy is a concrete aspect of a political hegemony built on a racist and conservative narrative about citizenship and identity in the Dominican Republic. In order to confront this strategy and redefine Dominican democracy in terms of pluralism, it is necessary to reconfigure the citizenry as the subject of democracy. If we define democracy as the constitution of citizenship following Balibar, or rather as inclusion in a political community of peers, we can expand the horizon of the political struggles of denationalized Dominicans and migrant workers in the country. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO810092022-03-22T15:21:07Z Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic La ilegalidad como orden. Hegemonía y política migratoria en la República Dominicana Muñiz, Anselmo Morel, Carlos Migration lawlessness Dominican-Haitian relations migración ilegalidad relaciones dominico-haitianas Since its inception, Dominican immigration policy with respect to Haiti has consisted in a Janus-faced strategy. On the one hand, an increasingly repressive and discriminatory legal order that is prejudiced against Haitian immigrants and their descendents has been established. On the other, extra-institutional exceptions are routinely generated in terms of regulations in order to create an uprooted and forsaken population with a precarious political and legal status. This strategy is a concrete aspect of a political hegemony built on a racist and conservative narrative about citizenship and identity in the Dominican Republic. In order to confront this strategy and redefine Dominican democracy in terms of pluralism, it is necessary to reconfigure the citizenry as the subject of democracy. If we define democracy as the constitution of citizenship following Balibar, or rather as inclusion in a political community of peers, we can expand the horizon of the political struggles of denationalized Dominicans and migrant workers in the country. Desde sus orígenes, la política migratoria dominicana frente a Haití ha estado marcada por una estrategia de doble cara: de un lado, se establece un orden cada vez más represivo y discriminatorio en perjuicio de los trabajadores migrantes haitianos y los dominicanos descendientes de estos trabajadores. Del otro, se generan excepciones extrainstitucionales a las reglas con el objetivo de generar una población desarraigada y desamparada, con un precario estatus político y legal en el país. Esta estrategia constituye un aspecto concreto de una hegemonía política que se sostiene sobre un relato conservador y racista acerca de la ciudadanía y la identidad en la República Dominicana. Para enfrentar esta estrategia y redefinir la democracia dominicana en términos pluralistas, es necesario reconfigurar la ciudadanía como sujeto de la democracia. Entender la democracia, siguiendo a Balibar, como constitución de la ciudadanía, vale decir, de autoinclusión en una comunidad política de pares, permite ampliar el horizonte de las luchas de dominicanos desnacionalizados y de trabajadores migrantes en el país. 2020-01-06 2022-03-22T15:21:07Z 2022-03-22T15:21:07Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.sisomosamericanos.cl/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/922 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/81009 spa https://www.sisomosamericanos.cl/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/922/645 Derechos de autor 2020 Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es application/pdf Instituto de Estudios Internacionales Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos; Vol. 19 Núm. 2 (2019): Si Somos Americanos; 27-48 Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos; Vol. 19 No. 2 (2019): Si Somos Americanos; 27-48 0719-0948 0718-2910 |
| spellingShingle | Migration lawlessness Dominican-Haitian relations migración ilegalidad relaciones dominico-haitianas Muñiz, Anselmo Morel, Carlos Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic |
| title | Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic |
| title_full | Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic |
| title_fullStr | Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic |
| title_short | Lawlessness as order: Hegemony and immigration policy in the Dominican Republic |
| title_sort | lawlessness as order: hegemony and immigration policy in the dominican republic |
| topic | Migration lawlessness Dominican-Haitian relations migración ilegalidad relaciones dominico-haitianas |
| url | https://www.sisomosamericanos.cl/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/922 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/81009 |