In Someone Else's Country: Anti-Haitian Racism and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic

In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are “in someone else’s country.”

Childers describes how nations like the Dominican Republic create “stateless” second-class citizens through targeted documentation policies. She also carefully dis...