Event

The sharp increase in Haitian migration in the past two years has garnered significant media attention as migrants have been met with opposition from border authorities. In an effort to better understand the structural conditions and individual experiences undergirding these changing migration patterns, speakers will discuss the past, present, and future of Haiti. Delving in to the recent past and current conditions in Haiti, they will reflect on how history and spatial journeys can help us understand the challenges and experiences of contemporary migrants. With an eye towards the future, and moving beyond pure understanding towards collective action, speakers will propose steps that civil society organizations and governments, acting both at the national and international levels at home and abroad, could undertake to ameliorate the difficult situation of millions of Haitian citizens in and outside of Haiti.

Panel Discussion, 2 pm

• Mamyrah Douge-Prosper
  Assistant Professor, Department of Global and International Studies
  University of California, Irvine (virtual)
• Guerline M. Jozef
  President, Haitian Bridge Alliance
• Alex Dupuy
  John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Wesleyan University

Keynote Lecture, 4 pm

• Georges Fouron
  Professor of Education and Social Sciences
  State University of New York at Stony Brook

Co-sponsored by CLALS and CSERI