Document Source: Laura Rose Wagner
Year: 2008
Tags: abuse, analysis, psychology
Categories: Restavek
Language:
A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the practice of keeping restaveks
Document Source: Jude Mary Cenat
Year: 2018
Tags: abuse, analysis, statistics
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
In Haiti, as in several developing countries, the phenomenon of street children has become a major public health issue. These children are often victims of traumas and adverse life events. This article aimed to investigate traumas experienced by street children and their coping and resilience strategies used to deal with adversities in a logic of …
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Document Source: Elizabeth Sloand
Year: 2010
Tags: abuse, analysis, narrative
Categories: Restavek
Language:
It has been several months since I served in Port au Prince, Haiti, where I assisted with immediate postearthquake medical care. As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I have been to Haiti many times during the past 10 years as a clinician, researcher, and nurse educator. When the earthquake struck in January 2010, causing massive damage …
Document Source: Diane M Hoffman
Year: 2011
Tags: abuse, analysis, assessment
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
Long before the earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010, but particularly since, international media and humanitarian groups have drawn attention to the ‘vulnerable child’ in Haiti, a child often portrayed as needing ‘saving’. Focusing in particular on the restavèk (child domestic laborer), this article first explores the ways in which such children are represented …
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Document Source: National Coalition for Haitian Rights
Year: 2002
Tags: abuse, adolescent, culture, narrative
Categories: Restavek
Language: English
Ti moun se bèt,” (Children are animals) or so the saying goes. When I was a child, I preferred to think of this proverb as a kind of endearing pejorative, something an exasperated adult might say after a child had made a really bad mess. However, as I grew older, it became apparent that not …