Embora a migração internacional tenha ganhado espaço e protagonismo na agenda política internacional e nacional, a atuação do governo brasileiro quanto ao tema ainda é restrito. Nas últimas décadas, milhões de pessoas, de distintas origens, raças, etnias e gêneros, têm encontrado no deslocamento a alternativa para libertarem-se de contextos de vulnerabilidades, caminho que tem sido facilitado por um cenário global de avanços tecnológicos. Assim como o perfil migratório se diversificou diante da intensificação da globalização, os fluxos e direções também se alteraram, não respondendo mais a um padrão de deslocamento Sul-Norte. Nos últimos anos, países do Sul do globo, como o Brasil, adquiriram notoriedade, também, como destino migratório. Essa posição se fez preponderante, sobretudo, a partir do crescente fluxo de migrantes haitianos para o país em 2010, impulsionados pelo terremoto que atingiu o Haiti naquele ano e atraídos pela fase de prosperidade e crescimento econômico que o Brasil atravessava na época. No entanto, apesar do protagonismo que o tema da migração já vinha adquirindo na agenda política, essa questão ainda permanecia – e permanece – precária no Brasil. Além de uma política migratória historicamente seletiva, centrada na segurança nacional, o país foi construído sob uma estrutura étnica, cultural e racial hierárquica, em que o negro e o migrante têm ocupado um papel social marginal. Portanto, esse fluxo migratório tem despertado desconfortos entre a população brasileira, dada as diferenças que se reafirmam nessa interação, gerando um cenário de resistência à integração desses imigrantes. Essas barreiras se intensificam quando se intersecciona à raça e à cultura a questão do gênero, tendo em vista que a migração de mulheres haitianas para o Brasil tem sido significativa e a relação entre homens e mulheres no país é extremamente desigual. Nesse sentido, considerando as marginalizações às quais essas mulheres estão sujeitas, esta pesquisa centra sua reflexão na realidade migratória por elas experenciada. Isso porque, mesmo suscetíveis a conjunturas múltiplas de opressão, não há, no Brasil, uma agenda nacional que estabeleça diretrizes de políticas públicas especificamente voltadas à população migrante e, tampouco, às mulheres migrantes. Desse modo, a atuação de atores sociais e de indivíduos tem sido imprescindível para driblar contextos de vulnerabilidade fomentados pela fraca atuação do poder público e para pressionar a ação estatal quanto ao tema da migração. Assim, com a finalidade de perceber como se dá a articulação desses atores e, mais do que isso, identificar quais são as associações que têm transformado essas realidades migratórias, essa pesquisa etnográfica interrelaciona o campo das Políticas Públicas à perspectiva da Antropologia e da Sociologia das Associações. Imersa no cotidiano das imigrantes haitianas que vivem na Esperança Cordeiro, em Porto Alegre, essa pesquisa buscou rastrear as associações entre atores que se estabelecem nessa interação e pude perceber que muitos mediadores estão ocultos desse processo, por não serem visivelmente institucionalizados e políticos. / Although the international migration has acquired space and prominence in the international and national political agenda, the performance of Brazilian government regarding this issue is still restricted. In the last decades, millions of people, from different origins, races, ethnicities and genders, have found in the displacement the alternative to free themselves from contexts of vulnerability, a path that has been facilitated by a global scenario of technological advances. As well as the migratory profile has diversified due to the intensification of globalization, the flows and directions also changed, no longer responding to a pattern of South-North displacement. In recent years, countries from the South of the globe, such as Brazil, acquired prominence also as a migratory destination. This position was mainly due to the increasing flow of Haitian migrants to the country in 2010, driven by the earthquake that hit Haiti that year and attracted by the phase of prosperity and economic growth that Brazil was experiencing at that time. However, despite the prominence that the issue of migration was already acquiring in the political agenda, this question remained – and still remains – precarious in Brazil. In addition to a historically selective migration policy, focused on national security, the country was built on an ethnic, cultural and racial hierarchical structure in which black people and migrants have occupied a marginal social role. Therefore, this migratory flow has aroused discomfort among the Brazilian population, bearing in mind the differences that are reaffirmed in this interaction, generating a scenario of resistance to the integration of these immigrants. These barriers are intensified when we intersect to race and culture the question of gender, given that the migration of Haitian women to Brazil has been significant and the relationship between men and women in the country is extremely uneven. In this sense, considering the marginalization to which these women are subject, this research focuses their reflection on the migratory reality experienced by them. This is because, even if they are susceptible to multiple situations of oppression, there is no national agenda in Brazil that establishes public policy guidelines specifically targeted to the migrant population and, neither, to the migrant women. Thus, the performance of social actors and individuals has been essential to overcome contexts of vulnerability fostered by the weak performance of the public authority and to pressure the state action on the issue of migration. In this way, in order to understand how the articulation of these actors occurs and, more than that, identify which associations have transformed these migratory realities, this ethnographic research interrelates the field of Public Policies to the perspective of Anthropology and Sociology of Associations. Immersed in the daily lives of Haitian immigrants living in Esperança Cordeiro, in Porto Alegre, this research sought to trace the associations between actors that are established in this interaction and I could realize that many mediators are hidden in this process, because they are not noticeably institutionalized and political.

Ce mémoire s’intéresse à la mise en texte des préjugés qui circulent dans l’imaginaire social haïtien dans trois romans de Kettly Mars : Kasalé, L’heure hybride et Saisons sauvages. Ces préjugés sont d’abord véhiculés par la bourgeoisie, représentante d’une culture d’élite qui valorise la langue française et un héritage occidental, mais méprise la culture populaire, imprégnée d’un héritage africain et caractérisée par la pratique du vodou et la langue créole. « Le préjugé de couleur », décrit par certains auteurs comme la base du système d’organisation sociale, tient aussi une place importante au sein du discours social des romans. Les trois romans à l’étude situent leur récit pendant le régime des Duvalier : François Duvalier est au pouvoir dans Kasalé et Saisons sauvages et son fils Jean-Claude Duvalier gouverne dans L’heure hybride. La présence de la dictature affecte le traitement des préjugés dans l’œuvre de Kettly Mars notamment parce que François Duvalier a exploité les idées préconçues de la bourgeoisie haïtienne dans ses discours en prétendant se porter à la défense de la culture populaire. Pourtant, les romans de Kettly Mars illustrent la façon dont la dictature perpétue et reproduit ces préjugés. En reprenant les notions de la sociocritique, de discours social et d’imaginaire social, ce mémoire analyse la mise en texte des préjugés sur la couleur de la peau, la culture populaire (qui comprend le vodou et le créole) et la sexualité (notamment les rôles sexuels) à travers les stéréotypes, les représentations sociales et les langages qui se trouvent dans les romans. / This master’s thesis studies how the prejudices of the haitien social space affect the text layout in three Kettly Mars’s novels: Kasalé, L’heure hybride and Saisons sauvages. These prejudices defend by the bourgeoisie represent an elite culture which values French language and a western inheritance and despises the popular culture, impregnated with an African inheritance and characterized by the practice of vodoo and the Creole language. “The colour prejudice”, described by certain authors as the base of the system of social organization, also takes an important place within the social discourse. The three studied novels take place during the political regime of Duvalier: François Duvalier governs in Kasalé and Saisons sauvages and Jean-Claude Duvalier governs L’heure hybride. The presence of dictatorship affects the treatment of the prejudices in Kettly Mars’s novels especially because François Duvalier exploited the Haitian bourgeoisie’s prejudices in his political rhetoric by claiming to be a defender of Haitian popular culture. Nevertheless, Kettly Mars’s novels illustrate the way the dictatorship reproduces these prejudices. With the sociocritic’s notions of “discours social” and “imaginaire social”, this study will question the text layout of the prejudices on the skin color, the popular culture (which includes voodoo and Creole) and the sexuality and the sexual roles through stereotypes, social representations and languages in novels.

Chronic low-grade inflammation has been implicated in the processes leading to the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its progression. Non-Hispanic Blacks bear a disproportionate burden of T2D and are highly susceptible to inflammation. This cross-sectional study assessed and compared the serum levels of established adipocytokines; interleukin-6 (IL-6), C-reactive protein (CRP), leptin, and novel adipocytokines; chemerin and omentin in Haitian and African Americans with and without T2D. The relationships of these adipocytokines with metabolic syndrome (MetS), anthropometric and HOMA2 measures by ethnicity and diabetes status were also assessed. Serum levels of IL-6, CRP, leptin, chemerin and omentin were determined by the ELISA method. HOMA2 measures were calculated for insulin sensitivity (HOMA2-IS) and insulin resistance (HOMA2-IR). Analyses of available data for 230 Haitian Americans and 241 African Americans (240 with and 231 without T2D) for the first study showed that Haitian Americans with and without MetS had lower levels of IL-6 and CRP compared to African Americans with and without MetS (P Ethnic-specific diabetes intervention and treatment programs must be designed to target Haitian Americans and African Americans as separate unique groups, in order to reduce the burden of T2D among the non-Hispanic Black community. Further research is needed to gain better understanding of the role of inflammation and T2D in this population.

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Parent-teen sex conversations reduce Black adolescents’ HIV/STI risk. Nationally, most studies about Black teens’ sexual risk behaviors omit Afro-Caribbean groups whom are disproportionately burdened by HIV/STIs. Therefore, this exploratory study guided by the PEN-3 model (a) characterized the nature, perceptions, enablers, and nurturers of sexuality conversations between Haitian and Jamaican parents and adolescents and (b) explained the relationship between sexuality conversations and adolescent sexual activity. Using narrative inquiry, 6 Haitian and 8 Jamaican mother-teen dyads’ and triads’ (N=31) experiences were used to characterize the nature, perceptions, enablers, and nurturers of parent-teen sex conversations. Thematic content analysis generated common themes. In phase two, Black adolescents (African American, Haitian, and Jamaican) N=157, completed a validated 52-item questionnaire. Scales included ASAI; measuring recent pre-coital and coital activities; FSCQ measuring families’ orientation towards sex-conversations, and PTSRC-III measuring sexual topics discussed with each parent. Linear and logistic regression determined the relationship between parent-teen sex conversations and teens’ sexual activity. Mothers’ mean age was (41.85±5.50) and teens’ mean age was (16±1.31). Qualitative findings suggest that Afro-Caribbean mothers’ limited childhood and adolescent sex conversations and outcomes of those interactions shaped mothers’ existing attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors about sexual topics, and hindered their ability to discuss sex with their teens. Dyads believed modifying parents’ approach, improving parents’ sexual health knowledge, and increasing families’ comfort with sex- conversations would improve sexual discussions. Survey participants’ mean age was (16±1.49) and mean age of penile-vaginal/anal sexual debut was (14.95±1.71). Twenty percent of sexually active teens had their first parent-teen sex conversation after penile-vaginal/anal sexual debut, p=.01, and 27% after penile-oral/vaginal-oral sexual debut, p=.001. Haitians had lower comfort with family-sex conversations than African Americans, p=.03 and Jamaicans, p=.004. African American teens’ higher comfort for family-sex conversations was predictive of delayed penile-vaginal/anal sexual debut, p=.009 and virginity, OR=1.5, 95% CI [1.154, 1.866]. Teens who never spoke to their fathers about protection from HIV/STI were four times more likely OR= 4.41, 95% CI [1.466, 13.30] to not use condoms. In summary, culturally-responsive, family focused interventions are needed to equip Afro-Caribbean parents for sex conversations with their teens in order to reduce teens’ sexual risk.

Creole Gatherings examines the relationship between canon formation and belonging. It studies the evolution of a print culture in New Orleans during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and argues that textual collection and other paratextual practices were a means of claiming cultural belonging in a society organized around linguistic and racial hierarchies. It proposes an extensive study of the Creole print culture of New Orleans that also takes into account New Orleans’ position as a major American city that entertained connections with many other places in the Atlantic world. Stepping away from a regionalist framework, the dissertation seeks to expand existing literary scholarship on Louisiana and to participate in the production of knowledge about literary exchange in the Atlantic. The dissertation examines the category of identification “Creole,” which became racialized in the late nineteenth century, and the emergence of a scholarly discourse about a “Creole literature.” It argues that two canons were established in the twentieth century, an Afro-Creole canon that would, in time, become affiliated to the canon of African-American literature, and a white Creole canon that would fail to become part of either the American or French canons that formed in the second half of the twentieth century. The study of these canons relies on the analysis of a variety of texts, mainly anthologies, literary criticism, bibliographical essays, collections of poetry, and the literary sections of newspapers. These constitute a continuity of practices indicative of an attempt to record and organize literary production. This study reveals a tension between goals of protecting one’s culture and incorporating it into an emerging field of study and underscores the racializing processes at play within the category of “Creole literature.” Highlighting connections between New Orleans and Haiti’s literary cultures in the nineteenth century, the dissertation points to the need for a large-scale transnational study of these two cultures.

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.

Domestic violence is a continuing public health problem. Immigrant women facing domestic violence have additional challenges in dealing with domestic violence and accessing services. Hopeful thinking has been identified as a strategy for intervening and surviving beyond domestic violence. The purpose of this multiple descriptive case study was to explore hopeful thinking in Haitian immigrant women domestic abuse survivors' (HIDAS) conceptualizations of the future beyond domestic abuse. The framework for the study was resilience theory, which emphasizes the individual's ability to bounce back from stressful situations. This framework was used to investigate how HIDAS in the United States experience hopeful thinking and the role hopeful thinking plays in how they perceive the future. Four women participants were recruited from a Haitian community in Florida, and data were collected through interviews. Findings from content analysis showed that while each woman had a different strategy for how to get out of the abusive relationships, they became independent by hoping that things would change for the better. Although the interpretation of findings clarified these survivors' experiences of domestic abuse, the findings are not meant to solve the larger problem of domestic abuse. The study results may influence social change by informing development of operational hope-based community and trauma intervention services for HIDAS and other groups of immigrant women.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Haitian immigrant population in the United States is the fourth largest immigrant group from the Caribbean after immigrants from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Cortes (2008) and the United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) reported that 17% of children born from two-parent families in some Caribbean countries had a migrating parent at some time in their childhood (Cortes, 2008). Using a phenomenological study enlightened how Haitian adult children have coped with transnational separation, which is a term used to describe families who live in different countries while trying to maintain a collective welfare and unity across borders (Falicov, 2007). The goal of this phenomenological qualitative study was to examine the experiences of adult children who lived in Haiti and were raised by relatives while their parents lived in the United States. The saturation of theme was a maximum of six adult children (not gender specific). The primary data collection method was in-depth interviews with the adult children inviting them to recount their experiences growing up in Haiti while their parents lived in the United States. I attempted to explore the major stressors of financial, emotional, and psychological strains. For example, how did those children maintain a relationship with their parents and cope with family separation? The data was coded and analyzed according to the research questions. These conversations privilege the voices of adult children who have experienced this phenomenon.

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