[EEman]

Originally Posted by Nal0whs

I don't consider it rhetoric, but everybody is free to express their opinion. And if it sounds like a broken record is because the topics on this board are very redundant. The same questions are asked a million times by different people and I give them the same answers!


what is so disturbing about it? The samething applies to most migrants, let it be Dominicans moving to NY, Haitians to DR, Tunisians to Italy, or Guatemalan to Mexico. If one of the two reasons I mention are not partially true, then I just wonder with much questioning as to why do Haitians prefer to live in slums on the outskirts of Santo Domingo and constantly feel harrassed when they could be living in the same conditions in Port-au-Prince and be in the only country in the world that can't deny them.


I don't speak to poor Dominicans most of the time, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that when a poor Dominican leaves to NY and comes back to "visit", they act as big shots and as if they got millions. They impress the locals making the locals think they live in mansions, little do the locals know that the "Dominicano Ausente" either live in cramped apartments in Washington Heights, lives off the US government, is in debt up to their eyeballs, or all of those put together.

Aside from that, there could be other reasons why Haitians prefer to be in the DR rather than in Haiti. Maybe because they can beg to tourist for pesos, something that can't be done in Haiti due to a lack of visitors. Or maybe they can send their children to Dominican schools and get them at least some form of education. Or maybe they can sell more on the Dominican informal economy than they do in Haiti. The point is there is something keeping the Haitians here, despite most of them living like they were in Haiti or even a lower levels.

Please, give me some insight into what causes them to stay because I don't see other reasons why it happens.

It must be said that these are generalizations, there are always exceptions.

You are very informative and you explain the situation well.