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In 1949, Haitian writer Lespes published a novel entitled “The Seeds of Anger” focusing on an agricultural resettlement on the Haitian-Dominican border, orchestrated by the Haitian authorities, in a failed attempt to help some of those who fled the massacre of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians, unleashed by the dictator Trujillo in 1937. Subsequently, the border crossing has been instrumentalised during political turmoil on the island of Hispaniola whereby episodes of forced migration have punctured positive developments towards cooperation and an enhanced contact zone across the island. This chapter considers how the border has been re-configured since the turn of the century, with new challenges for Dominico-Haitian relations emerging from increasingly restrictive migration and nationality policies handed down on the east of the island by the Dominican authorities. |
