In this last part of the essay against Caribbean/North-American anti-Haitian xenophobia will be illustrated the xenophobic and ostracizing practices which are used and established in the struggles against Haitian immigration.

[...] From the “Pearl of the Antilles” during colonization, it has transformed into a dead rock, deathly nation to which only remains the relics of a period of grandeur. Between a constantly-reshuffled government and repeated exterior interventions, the country loses ground. Its economy is in decay andthe people is emptied of its vital forces (...)

Who is Haiti ? This is quite an ambiguous question ? Haiti is a very peculiar nation among the other Antillean islands... If the beginnings of this nation’s history are permeated with a frantic heroism in the early 19th century, the late 19th and the 20th century as well, are characterized by an unprecendented sociopolitical (...)

Haiti is a nation which is cursed because of its spectacular foundations, its spectacular birth through revolution, emergence among the other nations, because of its acquiring independence, because of its presumable fate. Ostracized, exploited or else denigrated, Haiti is “a leper among nations”. It fascinates and frightens all at once because of its history. From the 19th century up until (...)

The human bondage that have paralyzed Haiti for centuries exhorts the people to throw itself into the waters to reach friendlier shores. The impoverishment of this people results from the whimsical events that shook the country and from the influence of the Haitian freedom fighters onto the other neighbouring islands of the Caribbean, the Black World and the oppressed peoples. Stéphanie (...)