Disspelling the Myths and Correcting the Record About Haitian Migrants: A Conversation with Human Rights Activists Gabrielle Apollon and Pooja Bhatia

This Baffler piece from Sept 2024 will give you a sense of the reasons why Biden policies– often mischaracterized as “open door”– were really a double edged sword for the migrants they purported to protect. https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/in-the-twilight-zone-bhatia

This LRB piece published in April 2024 provides some insight into the journeys many Haitians have had to make to chache lavi, to search for life, livelihood, safety. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/pooja-bhatia/diary

This piece from the New York Review online, published April 2024, highlights how dangerous deportation to Haiti would be. Things have only and impossibly deteriorated since. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/27/haiti-on-the-precipice/

Anti-Blackness Knows No Borders and Neither Should Haitian Migrant Rights Advocacy North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

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