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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Haitian immigrants, Santiago, Dominican Republic, Haiti

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Anthropology

Abstract

I was awarded an ORCA grant in order to carry out ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic (DR.). ORCA’s support made it possible for me to spend four months in Santiago, the second largest city, during winter semester. I had originally intended that my fieldwork would focus on the cultural theme of the tigre, or tiger (a charismatic showoff type in Dominican society). However, the reality warp between my elaborate Provobased scheming and the practicalities of living and doing ethnography in a large unfamiliar Caribbean city encouraged me to shift my focus and walk through open cultural doors instead of banging on closed ones. And so, I eventually decided to take advantage of unique contacts I had made in order to create a brief ethnography1 of Haitian families living in Santiago. I was especially interested in the way that these families related to their Dominican neighbors.

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