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Most Haitian immigrants who came to the United States in the twentieth century have done so in response to a periodic but sustained crisis in their homeland caused by the transformation from traditional to modern society, from a succession of ruthless and kleptocratic dictatorial regimes to a democratic government that is nonetheless corrupt, from the prominence of French culture among its elite to an incremental process of Americanization, from an economy based on agricultural production and tourism to one dependent on offshore industry and remittances, from a country in which the army served as the sole arbiter of national politics to one with no army and a civilian-led police force, from a country in which the rural population constituted the majority to a country with a majority of urban residents, from a country with a stable sedentary population to one in a constant migratory motion.
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Laguerre, M.S. (1998). Transnational Haiti. In: Diasporic Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26755-2_2
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