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Dominican Republic: Haitian Migrants Struggle for Citizenship

Haitian migrants toil under the hot sun on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic. But the majority of them are stateless; even those who are born here, have neither a Haitian nor Dominican passport. Now the UN Refugee Agency and a local non-governmental organization are helping undocumented Haitians become legal citizens. UNIA program # 1346 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1346.pdf

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