Nexus Between Statelessness And Human Trafficking
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For my thesis research on the nexus between statelessness and human trafficking, I volunteered with the Centro de Formacion y Accion Social y Agraria or the Center for Agricultural Training and Social Action (CEFASA), a Non-governmental institution committed to the empowerment of civil society and the defense of human rights in the Dominican Republic. My proposed research has been to analyze the affects of the 2013 Dominican Republic Supreme Court ruling that stripped the citizenship of over 250,000 Haitian-Dominicans, as well as the increase of sex trafficking of irregular migrants and deportees in the Dominican Republic. With the NGO’s help I explored the history of Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Republic as a minority group, the insecurities