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Indifference Within Indignation: Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Haitian Bracero

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Indifference Within Indignation: Anthropology, Human Rights, and the Haitian Bracero
Author(s)Martinex, Samuel
AbstractAn elaboration on the political-economy approach makes explicit its implicit critique of liberal human rights ideology. Evidence from fieldwork among Haitian migrant sugarcane workers (braceros) and returnees on both sides of the island of Hispaniola highlights the tradition’s blind spots. Economic unfreedom renders the bracero vulnerable to infringements of his basic civil liberties. This condition draws into question Western human rights activists’ inattention to the economic and social roots of labor and minority rights abuses.
IssueNo1
Pages17-25
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceAmerican Anthropologist
VolumeNo98
PubDateMarch 1996
ISBN_ISSN0002-7294


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