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In this article, we will look at some of the living conditions for child domestic workers, in order to describe their situation compared to other children in the same age group in Haiti. Although the focus when dealing with child domestic workers is often solely on their activities and conditions, it is also crucial to […]

June 30, 2023

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 […]

August 22, 2021

Moving Children in Haiti: Some Hypotheses on Kinship, Labor, and Personhood in the Haitian Context

AFTER 200 YEARS OF BEES, LET’S HAVE 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government at the end of 2003 to celebrate the impending bicentennial of independence and freedom from slavery. But with no honey in sight, there wasn’t much to celebrate, as antigovernment violence coupled with a dismal economy […]

There are several characteristics that are usually commonly found in a “restavec”. The child will be a girl.4 She will be about nine years old and possibly younger. In addition, she will have been born into extreme poverty and she will be a black, dark-skinned child. Also, it is almost certain that she will have […]